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***Attention Website mods ***
Ten_Mile_Hike:
I am unable to open several groups and messages on the forum today despite
using different browsers and disabling all adblockers and my VPN.
I was able to post here after previous unsuccessful attempts
vfclists:
--- Quote from: Ten_Mile_Hike on October 01, 2024, 09:43:57 pm ---I am unable to open several groups and messages on the forum today despite
using different browsers and disabling all adblockers and my VPN.
I was able to post here after previous unsuccessful attempts
--- End quote ---
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,68723.msg531712/topicseen.html
Joanna from IRC:
That is interesting, I didn’t know certain parts of forum could block ip addresses rather than whole forum. Do the bots attacking forums prefer some parts of it over others?
Marc:
It didn't block different parts. It was pure luck you came through. I was ratelimiting IPv4 connections on the firewall, so at least other parts of the rever continued to work (IPv6 connections still worked)
Marc
carl_caulkett:
--- Quote from: Marc on October 02, 2024, 08:51:48 am ---It didn't block different parts. It was pure luck you came through. I was ratelimiting IPv4 connections on the firewall, so at least other parts of the rever continued to work (IPv6 connections still worked)
--- End quote ---
Can we assume that the DDOS has stopped occurring? I seem to be able to access all parts of the forum today, which is a relief!
I would humbly suggest that a more user friendly way of dealing with this sort of thing, for instance a small holding page outlining the problem, rather than just blocking certain IP addresses. It may not have been random from where you were standing, but it sure felt random from this end, and not a little stress-inducing 😮
UPDATE: And if, as Thaddy suggests on another thread, your day job prevents you from addressing problems straightaway, then maybe, for your sake as well as the rest of us, you need to have a colleague with similar powers but based in a complementary time-zone 🤔
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