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Title: Recent Outages
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Published: Nov 6, 2010
Author: Neil
Post Date: 2010-11-06 01:59:57 by Pinguinite
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The recent outages appear to have been caused by a bunch of automated hits on the server that overwhelmed it. The source seems to be a somewhat random list of IPs, so blocking those IP's would likely not do much good in preventing a repeat. The fix here is a modification on the software to disregard any requests for thread pages if a huge number of such requests come in a very short time (more than 10 in one second, for example) but such a modification will need to be added to my to-do list, so there may be more such outages in the near future. Until then all I can do is deal with them when they happen. This looks like a Denial of Service (DOS) attack but simple incompetence by some web crawling programmer can't be ruled out. If the cause is incompetence and not a deliberate, malicious attack, then I'd expect this problem to go away. Thanks for your patience.
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#1. To: Pinguinite (#0)
I think it is a DOS attack. And it is happening on a day that very well could be one never forgotten in world history. I sure hope I am wrong though. A nuke explosion as the ultimate false flag event.
God is always good!
Where'd that come from? Is your spidey sense tingling?
No, it came for this oddly enough.
God is always good!
Is there a regional trend in the IPs? Any particular county?
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
Just checked that and it's a combination of Australia, UY (Uruguay?) and Amsterdam. However, if it was a deliberate attack, then those IP's could easily be faked, and in fact could be counted on to be fake.
Thanks "All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
#2. To: RickyJ (#1)
#3. To: Obnoxicated (#2)
#4. To: Pinguinite (#0)
The recent outages appear to have been caused by a bunch of automated hits on the server that overwhelmed it. The source seems to be a somewhat random list of IPs,
#5. To: Flintlock (#4)
Is there a regional trend in the IPs? Any particular county?
#6. To: Pinguinite (#5)
if it was a deliberate attack, then those IP's could easily be faked, and in fact could be counted on to be fake.
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