Hi

Our Singapore Classifieds website was down for much of today as DNS settings for the website went offline due to a problem with a server. The database was not affected in any way. The DNS server returned to service by late morning.

Many parts of the world could access Singapore Classifieds since late morning.

However, Singapore users have only been able to access the website since 9.15pm today.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

A robot –  twiceler — has been worming its way through Singapore Classifieds, eating up our bandwidth lately and taxing our server. It has also caused our server to log thousands of error messages daily.

This robot has the following IP ranges:

208.36.144.10, 38.99.13.121, 64.1.215.164, 64.1.215.165

We have banned these IPs from accessing Singapore Classifieds.

From searches on the Internet, we learn that this robot has also been giving similar problems to many, many other Websites.

Editor