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Posted on: Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:37 pm




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Post site being hammered by "bing"
If you've experienced poor performance over the past few hours:

Microsoft's "bing" crawler is hitting the site at crazy rates, trying to work out how to fix this... [cursing]


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Posted on: Thu Oct 27, 2022 1:12 pm




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Post Re: site being hammered by "bing"
I added some more performance monitoring software for the web server.

Also finding that a bot called "mj12" has been hitting the site at crazy rates,
and _exclusively_ trying to retrieve (mostly outdated) Russian puzzle pages [confused] [confused]


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Posted on: Thu Oct 27, 2022 11:56 pm




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Post Re: site being hammered by "bing"
.. and this evening the load went up a lot because a server from Hong Kong tried to hack
the forum software with an "SQL injection attack" [glare]

There is some software running that analyzes log files and blocks servers on suspicious activity,
I need to extend this to also check the web server logs [mellow]


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Posted on: Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:04 pm




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Post Re: site being hammered by "bing"
Hurray, yesterday finally 24 hours of normal load [woot]

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edit: there was only one short hacking attempt this morning, from Columbus, Ohio, this time.


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