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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>FYI – There is a very brief maintenance period
each night during the backup where the site may be off line for a moment.
However last night may have been a bit longer (like more than the usual 30 seconds
but less than a few minutes) due to a DOS attack slightly after 4 am around the
same time as the nightly backup. Our firewall with Rackspace attempts to block
IP’s but in some cases where the IP can not be identified it shuts down the
site temporarily to stop the attack. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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S. Kraus - Dir of Operations<br>
Operations@LP.org<br>
Libertarian National Committee<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Lnc-business
[mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Kevin Ludlow<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 14, 2016
4:31 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> lnc-business<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Lnc-business] lp.org
down</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>To those interested, <a
href="http://lp.org">lp.org</a> is currently down.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Unless we're getting
DOS-ed, then this would seem to be a fairly significant problem that our DB
can't handle our connections.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've attached a
screenshot of the problem; I don't know specifically who to send to.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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Kevin Ludlow<br>
512-773-3968<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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