Forum under attack

[admin]

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?

[Inspector Knacker]

We haven't 'upset' anyone have we....?

[akarjl2]

Good chance it is......Chinese are notorious for it

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/ddos-attack-tools/

[admin]

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.

[akarjl2]

your web host should be able to exclude ip addresses...

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

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.

[Inspector Knacker]

Funny how they always happen on this board pre-election.