Comments on: WordPress 1.5.x safe from XML-RPC worm http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/11/09/wordpress-secure-from-worm Random musings of a Southern geek Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:15:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dave http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/11/09/wordpress-secure-from-worm#comment-32314 Dave Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:58:50 +0000 http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=682#comment-32314 Thanks for the info. That the bad thing about the web, rumor and incorrect info gets passed around like wildfire. Thanks for the info. That the bad thing about the web, rumor and incorrect info gets passed around like wildfire.

]]> By: Doug http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/11/09/wordpress-secure-from-worm#comment-32232 Doug Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:56:15 +0000 http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=682#comment-32232 There is something going on that is effecting WordPress sites, though. All of my WordPress sites were down a couple days ago. My host fixed it but they didn't say what the issue was. I've seen this on other WordPress sites over the last couple days. For example, Matt's site seems to be having similar problems at the time of this writing. In Safari, I see an error like this: Safari can’t open the page “http://photomatt.net/”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005). FireFox just shows a blank page. From the command line, I see: $ curl -v http://photomatt.net/ * About to connect() to photomatt.net port 80 * Trying 72.36.230.250... * connected * Connected to photomatt.net (72.36.230.250) port 80 > GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.13.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) libcurl/7.13.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7g zlib/1.2.3 Host: photomatt.net Pragma: no-cache Accept: */* * Empty reply from server * Connection #0 to host photomatt.net left intact curl: (52) Empty reply from server * Closing connection #0 When my sites were down, I could get to any of my static pages, but anything WordPress gave errors like those above. Any idea what's going on? There is something going on that is effecting WordPress sites, though. All of my WordPress sites were down a couple days ago. My host fixed it but they didn’t say what the issue was.

I’ve seen this on other WordPress sites over the last couple days. For example, Matt’s site seems to be having similar problems at the time of this writing. In Safari, I see an error like this: Safari can’t open the page “http://photomatt.net/”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005). FireFox just shows a blank page.

From the command line, I see: $ curl -v http://photomatt.net/
* About to connect() to photomatt.net port 80
* Trying 72.36.230.250… * connected
* Connected to photomatt.net (72.36.230.250) port 80
> GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.13.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) libcurl/7.13.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7g zlib/1.2.3
Host: photomatt.net
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: */*
* Empty reply from server
* Connection #0 to host photomatt.net left intact
curl: (52) Empty reply from server
* Closing connection #0

When my sites were down, I could get to any of my static pages, but anything WordPress gave errors like those above.

Any idea what’s going on?

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]]> By: Datenrettung http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/11/09/wordpress-secure-from-worm#comment-32206 Datenrettung Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:24:03 +0000 http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=682#comment-32206 [...] WordPress ist ab der Version 1.5 absolut sicher vor diesem neuen Wurm, ist auf Dougal Gunters.org zu lesen. Weniger sicher ist derzeit wieder einmal Windows. Es ist wirklich dringend Datenrettung angesagt. Microsoft gibt wieder einmal zu, dass sein System schlicht knackbar ist. … bis zum nächsten Microsoft Alarm:Datenrettung! [...] [...] WordPress ist ab der Version 1.5 absolut sicher vor diesem neuen Wurm, ist auf Dougal Gunters.org zu lesen. Weniger sicher ist derzeit wieder einmal Windows. Es ist wirklich dringend Datenrettung angesagt. Microsoft gibt wieder einmal zu, dass sein System schlicht knackbar ist. … bis zum nächsten Microsoft Alarm:Datenrettung! [...]

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