Forum crawling earlier today

Post by **system11** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:03 pm

Sorry for the trouble today, it seems someone *really* wanted to refresh the front page in a tight loop, taking up all the apache processes. I have blocked them and sent the user I believe is involved, a message about this.

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:17 pm

why would anyone do that, let alone a member

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:42 pm

Did somebody try this BS again just now?

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:52 pm

So that's why I couldn't access the forums.
And yeah, what would be the point of doing that?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:57 pm

BF: There are mods to throttle dipshits like this. Look around. Apache is highly configurable. I know you're busy... but hey, we all are.

Post by **system11** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:12 pm

Yeah, not sure mod_throttle would have helped this time. As soon as a connection was closed another was established, and then they'd sit in CLOSE_WAIT state until timeout. For all I know the attempts are still rolling in, I did a 'quick fix' and null routed their IP.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:32 pm

It's a DoS attacks. Dodge that bullet, Shmups!

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:10 pm

nimitz wrote:why would anyone do that, let alone a member

I really shouldn't have felt this way (let alone admit this), but something about this post sent me into temporary hysterics

Anyway, sorry to hear about the harebrained (or was it FEATHERBRAINED? Macaw just made his return, COINCIDENCE?!) attempt to DOS the server.

At least it shouldn't have taken up a whole lot of bandwidth, rite?

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:07 am

Macaw?

so he's STILL here...