promiseacres
Herd Master
Coffee is on
Coffee anyone ?
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r3bauer
Loving the herd life
Good morning all! Another trip to the VA hospital to get my eyes checked out its only been 10 years! Lol. I went to the local farm store where I get my feed and other supplies and where I ordered my ducklings, I checked on my order and they didnt have it! I wasnt upset but made sure I got a new order for them and they will be in on April 8.
Bruce
Herd Master
Being able to see clearly may be a shock to your system!
Bunnylady
Herd Master
Good morning, all. Nice to see BYH functioning normally again (I was getting all kinds of messages yesterday; I would swear the weirdest said something about a "railgun failure." Do what? 
Mentioning shocks to the system, our thermometers are making like yoyo's . . . it must be Spring. That layer of yellowish dust that seems to be coating everything kinda hints in that direction, too. Is it really pollen season already?
*cough, cough*
Mentioning shocks to the system, our thermometers are making like yoyo's . . . it must be Spring. That layer of yellowish dust that seems to be coating everything kinda hints in that direction, too. Is it really pollen season already?
*cough, cough*
Bruce
Herd Master
greybeard
Herd Master
Railgun is part of a security/content delivery network program called Cloudflare. Websites employ Cloudflare to do a number of things, including protecting from DDOS attacks, ad and traffic analytics, and reverse proxy seervice. (DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, which basically is a website being brought to a stop or crawl by barraging it with huge numbers of packets...requests)
Cloudflare 'sits' between us, (BYH users) and this website's servers.
Bunnylady
Herd Master
Thx, @greybeard
I figured that "railgun" was probably the name of a program, or a type of program with a very specialized purpose, since all google came up with was the sci-fi definition that I was familiar with. Granted, I didn't look for long, but I felt fairly sure that if it was a generic term, google should have brought it up on the first page. And, since neither of my geeky kids knew what a railgun was (at least, not in this context ), I was pretty sure we didn't have one in our little network, so the problem must be someone else's, and not mine.
My daughter might scoff at the idea of 'a little chicken site being the target of a DDoS attack' (her words), but some folks don't care who they inconvenience, especially if they are using it as practice (or a wedge) for something bigger.
I figured that "railgun" was probably the name of a program, or a type of program with a very specialized purpose, since all google came up with was the sci-fi definition that I was familiar with. Granted, I didn't look for long, but I felt fairly sure that if it was a generic term, google should have brought it up on the first page. And, since neither of my geeky kids knew what a railgun was (at least, not in this context ), I was pretty sure we didn't have one in our little network, so the problem must be someone else's, and not mine.
My daughter might scoff at the idea of 'a little chicken site being the target of a DDoS attack' (her words), but some folks don't care who they inconvenience, especially if they are using it as practice (or a wedge) for something bigger.
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greybeard
Herd Master
Well, I'm not saying BYH was victim of any kind of attack. Any program or bit of software caan cause problems...just because.
And railgun weapons aren't just scifi. The US Navy is actively working to perfect the one they have. It's been tested on land but not deployed on ships. The Red Chinese are reportedly already installing their own version on a ship for testing purposes.
