Re: site suffered another DDOS attack
Another DDOS hit on the forum, again from China, sadly
I noticed it because the size of the daily backup file went down instead of up (!)
(it really should always increase).
This was because there were many forum sessions from China that happened to expire
(went from about 43000 sessions to about 5000 in one day).
I blocked the offending IP address, but I'm assuming the site will be attacked from
new sources later
pnm wrote:
Much like the previous one:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1157The site was again swamped with random forum requests (600-1000 in a few minutes),
at about 1.38am CEST (so 7.38pm EDT for example),
causing the server to run out of memory, which crashed the database server.
This explains the "can't connect / mysql" errors people were seeing.
This attack again was from China.