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BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
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BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
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01-12-2007, 12:43 AM,
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BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
BluJay is BROKEN!. It went down late Wednesday night. The site redirects to their forums.
BluJay didn't give any explanation for the outage beyond: Quote:blujay.com is currently down - the service will be back on Friday : 
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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01-12-2007, 08:54 AM,
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RE: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
Update:
Quote:The blujay.com service will be restored once the DNS information propagates across the internet. |
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01-12-2007, 08:15 PM,
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RE: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
Quote:As it would happen, one of the servers was unplugged accidently. : : : : :1. why didn't they post an actual announcement on their boards yesterday 2. why did it take 24 hours for their DNS to "switch back"?
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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01-13-2007, 02:07 AM,
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RE: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
Quote:As it would happen, one of the servers was unplugged accidently. That's the first time I've heard 'server was unplugged' used as an excuse for an outage. ;D |
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01-14-2007, 06:51 AM,
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RE: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
[quote author=amy link=topic=6616.msg40254#msg40254 date=1168654020]
Quote:As it would happen, one of the servers was unplugged accidently. That's the first time I've heard 'server was unplugged' used as an excuse for an outage. ;D [/quote] It looks like it's back up now.
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06-13-2008, 11:12 AM,
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2008, 11:58 AM by mandy.)
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RE: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
It broke again...down about 12 hours and counting
every page on BJ Wrote:Error 404 - Not found From their board: Quote:We are currently experiencing DNS issues. blujay.com will be back online as soon as this is resolved.http://blujaybb.com/ DNS issues usually don't result in every page on a site throwing 404s. A crashed database does however. Perhaps he meant to say we'll be back as soon as the database is restored -unless someone unplugs the server from the wall again (last year's excuse for an all day outage). Also from their board, an open invitation to hackers: Quote:Powered by SMF 1.0.5.:blinkie: the ancient version 1.05 has several security vulnerabilities, some of which have been known since 2005 :blinkie: 9/1/05, Exposure of system information, http://secunia.com/advisories/16646/ 2/24/06, Cross Site Scripting, http://secunia.com/advisories/19004/ 9/4/06, Cross Site Scripting, sql injection,Manipulation of data, http://secunia.com/product/5285/?task=advisories_2006 12/4/2006, cross site scripting, http://secunia.com/advisories/23175/ 5/7/2007, hijacking, http://secunia.com/advisories/25139/ 10/22/2007, sql injection, manipulation of data, http://secunia.com/advisories/27346/ The security issues caused by Blujay's failure to update its board from version 1.05 were first commented on here in early 2006 and the site's boinktard owner has yet to update his board. : ----------------------------------------------------------- EDIT: while I'm in BJ bashing mode  , I thought I'd remind people of one of the primary reasons Blujay has never been recommended here and never will be: the site has always hidden its ownership information on its domain WHOIS records. FYI, Auctionbytes shares the same sentiments about sites that hide their ownership information: auctionbytes in an article about the launch of Wagglepop 2 Wrote:It's impossible to vet every company we write about, but our policy has been to always verify the WhoIs registration information and search for the registrant's name to look for any signs of trouble. If a business won't reveal their identity, we won't write about ithttp://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blo...49200.html] |
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06-13-2008, 01:46 PM,
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Re: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
While the forum home page comes up fine, this is what you see when you click login
http://www.blujay.com/?page=loginp [img width=600 height=363]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Dixie_Amazon/Screen%20Shots/BJforum061308.gif[/img]
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06-13-2008, 02:29 PM,
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2008, 02:36 PM by bargainbloodhound.)
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Re: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
Quote:DNS issues usually don't result in every page on a site throwing 404s. A crashed database does however. Correct, DNS issues don't result in 404s like the site was showing last night. Its not a crashed database though. More likely they're having problems importing the database to their new server (or it's taking longer then they thought to import it) BluJay did an unannounced server move yesterday and it looks like they switched the DNS to point to the new server before the site/software was setup/tested on the new server...they must have attended the same Bungled Server Moves 101 class as Plunderhere's Marktard. You should always test that the site is working on the new server before you switch the DNS to point to the new server. Old host: Corporate Colo in Southern California New Host: 1 &1 (why the hell they chose 1&1 is a mystery...1&1 primarily serves small businesses/mom & pops) old server 7 day old cached copy of their DNS records Wrote:base record name ip reverse route as new server: current DNS records Wrote:blujay.com. MX IN 86400 mx00.1and1.com. [Preference = 10]
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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06-13-2008, 02:33 PM,
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Re: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
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Quote:The security issues caused by Blujay's failure to update its board from version 1.05 were first commented on here in early 2006 Security problems with their forum were first mentioned on FAS in early 2005 by me. At the time they were using an outdated SMF 1.01. Apparently the upgrade they did to 1.05 after the subject was brought up 3 years ago was the last time they bothered to upgrade the forum.
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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06-13-2008, 03:10 PM,
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2008, 03:13 PM by regic.)
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Re: BluJay Breaks! plus Blujay's Forums Have Been A Hacker's Best Friend Since 2005
Quote:blujay.com.  NS  IN  86400  ns58.1and1.com. A helpful server move tip for all the boinktards out there When you're doing a server move that also involves a change of nameservers you should change the TTL (the 86400 above, which is 24 hours) to 900 or less (15 minutes) 1-2 days before doing the move. This will force every ISP to query your domain records every 15 minutes (instead of doing it every 24 hours) and will virtually eliminate the problem of users whose ISPs are slow to update their records having to wait 1-2 days for the new DNS info to propogate to their slowpoke ISP. |
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