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Author: | pnm [ Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:56 am ] |
Post subject: | forum suffered a DDOS attack |
I had to take the forum offline, because the server became overloaded. After investigating, I found this was because of a so-called "DDOS" attack from China. (DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service, where a large number of hacked computers (a "botnet") are used to overload a web server, for example). I have taken some steps to reduce the impact. I could have just blocked China completely, but that would not be nice for the 10 or so active puzzlers from China... I don't know if my current solution will hold up, the attackers could always switch to a different botnet, for example. Patrick |
Author: | paulv66 [ Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:45 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: forum suffered a DDOS attack |
Strange that this website was targeted. Hopefully, they won't bother again. |
Author: | pnm [ Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:15 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: forum suffered a DDOS attack |
paulv66 wrote: Strange that this website was targeted. Hopefully, they won't bother again. Yes. From searching the web it seems this happens more often (attacks from China on "phpbb", the software I use for the forum). No clue about the reason behind it though, maybe it was a random attack. |
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