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We're back

Posted: May 5th, 2025, 6:52 pm
by LePaul
Thousands of bots attacked the site for the past few days.

I was able to work with GoDaddy to block the IP range of the offending assholes.

Sorry for the headache!

Re: We're back

Posted: May 5th, 2025, 8:57 pm
by Roberts_Clif
Yea

What did it take to fix, for my learning data base (my memory)

Re: We're back

Posted: May 6th, 2025, 10:31 am
by LePaul
Roberts_Clif wrote: May 5th, 2025, 8:57 pm Yea

What did it take to fix, for my learning data base (my memory)
A few things

1) Low disk space, I had some old backups queued to be deleted that didnt That slowed the system down. Fixed.
2) Sent you a Facebook Message to your boss (ha ha) with the exact thread on the phpBB. Several ranges of IPs needed to bee blocked.

Re: We're back

Posted: May 6th, 2025, 7:53 pm
by Roberts_Clif
Thank you

Really wanted to read and learn about it.

Re: We're back

Posted: May 7th, 2025, 11:32 pm
by LePaul
Well, we got hit again

This time I altered the nameservers to use Cloudflare.

Re: We're back

Posted: May 9th, 2025, 8:11 am
by LePaul
Back - again!

Re: We're back

Posted: July 30th, 2025, 8:43 am
by LePaul
We're battling a new wave of these annoying bots and various attacks

If you see we're down - I'm working on it! Other phpBB boards are facing the same challenge.