Difference between revisions of "Mother's Day Bug"

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On Sunday, May 13, 2007, Mother's Day, YTMND.COM went down, displaying only:
 
  
'''MYSQL CONNECTION FAILED: [1129] Host 'ytmnd.com' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts''''
 
 
on the front page.  It had been working intermittently the entire day, and finally crashed at around 1:40PM MST.  The YTMND WIKI, YTMND FORUMS and [[User:max|Max Goldberg]]'s other websites, [http://ytmnd.net YTMND.NET], [http://ytmnd.org YTMND.ORG], and [http://dustindiamond.com DUSTINDIAMOND.COM] still worked.
 
Nevertheless, YTMNDer activity continued through this.  The incident was discussed in the YTMND forums, as well as on [[Gabbly_Chat|Gabbly]]. 
 
 
Following a post that GABBLY user Max_Goldberg made, GABBLY user TheDudeVonDoom created an image to circulate:  [[Image:YtmnDowncopy.jpg]]
 
 
 
A few minutes later, at 4:00 PM MST, YTMND returned just as good as new.
 

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