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Politics => Local Issues and Matters => Topic started by: admin on November 16, 2019, 04: PM

Title: Forum under attack
Post by: admin on November 16, 2019, 04: PM
There's something very strange going on - at the moment we have over 500 people viewing the forum - most of them in China! Could this be a DDoS attack?
Title: Re: Forum under attack
Post by: Inspector Knacker on November 16, 2019, 04: PM
We haven't 'upset' anyone have we....?
Title: Re: Forum under attack
Post by: akarjl2 on November 16, 2019, 04: PM
Good chance it is......Chinese are notorious for it

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/ddos-attack-tools/
Title: Re: Forum under attack
Post by: admin on November 16, 2019, 07: PM
The IP addresses seem to be from a Huawei host/transit centre in Hong Kong. Suspect it may be some sort of crawler or bot.
Title: Re: Forum under attack
Post by: akarjl2 on November 16, 2019, 09: PM
your web host should be able to exclude ip addresses...
Title: Re: Forum under attack?
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on November 16, 2019, 09: PM
Quote from: akarjl2 on November 16, 2019, 09: PM
your web host should be able to exclude ip addresses...

You should see the length of our ban list - almost all are world wide spam bots.
Title: Re: Forum under attack
Post by: Inspector Knacker on November 16, 2019, 11: PM
Funny how they always happen on this board pre-election.