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Two other forum members and I have been seeing database errors all afternoon/evening on PW when accessing different parts of this forum. For us, these errors all look like:
This message will appear repeatedly continually, then 10-20 mins later, everything will appear fine for a few click before the error will recur and continually repeat again. This has been happening all day. Between errors, the forum will behave normally for from 1-20 clicks before this same error happens again.
Has anyone else been having this happen? How can this be reported to the PW system administrator?
across the stone, deathless piano performances
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Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /usr/home/recitals/public_html/common.php on line 55 Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
across the stone, deathless piano performances
"Discipline is more reliable than motivation." -by a contributor on Reddit r/piano "Success is 10% inspiration, and 90% perspiration." -by some other wise person "Pianoteq manages to keep it all together yet simultaneously also go in all directions; like a quantum particle entangled with an unknown and spooky parallel universe simply waiting to be discovered." -by Pete14
The database error is still happening to me this morning.
across the stone, deathless piano performances
"Discipline is more reliable than motivation." -by a contributor on Reddit r/piano "Success is 10% inspiration, and 90% perspiration." -by some other wise person "Pianoteq manages to keep it all together yet simultaneously also go in all directions; like a quantum particle entangled with an unknown and spooky parallel universe simply waiting to be discovered." -by Pete14
Frank - let us know if you need to hire somebody with the requisite expertise to help. Heck, do a GoFundMe if it's expensive. PianoWorld is well worth the effort.
Why PianoWorld is the target for bots mystifies me unless it's "target practice" for something bigger, just a way to hone skills at the Hogwarts School for Hackers, or something like that. Last time I checked, politics is pretty much a banned subject here.
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1929 Steinert 6'10" (Close copy of New York S&S "B")
I am seeing the same problems this morning (and yesterday).
Originally Posted by Piano World
We were being slammed by bots, primarily from China, but some from Russia and some from Singapore. Working on finding a way to minimize the chances.
This strikes me as so odd. Why on earth would someone (somebot) target PW? There's nothing to be gained here AFAIK.
There's 10s of thousands of users and passwords - a lot of people use the same password for everything. Any forum with a large membership can be a goldmine of information to hackers, sad to say.
I am seeing the same problems this morning (and yesterday).
Originally Posted by Piano World
We were being slammed by bots, primarily from China, but some from Russia and some from Singapore. Working on finding a way to minimize the chances.
This strikes me as so odd. Why on earth would someone (somebot) target PW? There's nothing to be gained here AFAIK.
Membership data as the database contains name, birthdate and password Protect yourself by using a unique passcode not shared with sites that have your financial information
I belong to another forum where the number of ‘guests’ yesterday was double the expected. I suspect the same attempt