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I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« on: March 14, 2025, 06:00:35 pm »
Hi
Does anybody know the answer to that question?!?
I mean, it's not just slow, but completely shut off ~ error 503
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2025, 06:27:47 pm »
This is simply an example of the economic phenomenon called "externality".
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2025, 07:57:37 pm »
DDNS or a scraping, unmannered, bot. ( which are technically the same)
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2025, 07:59:23 pm »
Quote from: cdbc on March 14, 2025, 06:00:35 pm
Does anybody know the answer to that question?!?
I mean, it's not just slow, but completely shut off ~ error 503

Again AI-scraping bots. See this thread on the mailing list.
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2025, 08:56:01 pm »
Quote from: PascalDragon on March 14, 2025, 07:59:23 pm
Again AI-scraping bots. See this thread on the mailing list.
Personally, I would find it very difficult to trust the "suggestions" from any entity that has such blatant disregard for proper behavior.

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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2025, 11:17:47 pm »
Hi
Thanks Sven for the link and for drilling for the answer...
Boy, at the moment @Marc sure has his work cut out for him...  %)  :(
Thank you Marc  :)
Regards Benny
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2025, 11:45:37 pm »
It was a busy day. One bot, identified as a chatgpt one. That one was easy to block.
At the same time some DDoS or some unidetified scraper was loading all topics from all over the world. Luckily in a recognizable pattern not used by regular users. The blocking script was blocking IPs at a rate of 20 per second for hours.
Those blocks are aggregated every 5 min  to complete subnets. Unfortunately calculating those subnets took a lot of time due to the huge amount. So a bunch of those scripts were running the same time bringing the server down.
After fixing that everything came back online
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2025, 12:09:03 am »
I was searching (SVG rendering) using Google and found my posts were coming up in the search listings (and also in unrelated posts and some sort of ratings pages). Thought it was a bit odd. It happened when the forum was dreadfully slow and also I was getting ~ error 503).

Looks as though search engines are incorrectly/aggressively indexing posts from the forum and also possibly some DDoS happening.
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2025, 01:52:03 am »
Just for the record, I've noticed that Google seems to be indexing the forums again.

that said, I have no idea if its spider is a good netizen or not. 
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2025, 07:57:14 am »
Hi
Hmmmm.... There must be some kind of interest in pascal after all  ;D
Regards Benny
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2025, 08:19:07 am »
(Hm, I am overburdoning DeepSeek, sorry  :P , running my own AI Freepascal contest)

Which gave some surprisingly combinatory good results.
« Last Edit: March 15, 2025, 08:22:25 am by Thaddy »
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2025, 08:24:26 am »
Hi Thaddy
Shame on you dude....  >:(  ;D
...But it's always nice with good results.
Are you by any chance playing with your "SuperComputer on a Dime" thingy?
Regards Benny
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2025, 09:13:56 am »
Quote from: 440bx on March 15, 2025, 01:52:03 am
Just for the record, I've noticed that Google seems to be indexing the forums again.

that said, I have no idea if its spider is a good netizen or not.
I manage the Google bot through their site. I requested indexing since a lot of pages weren't indexed.
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2025, 09:58:39 am »
Quote from: Marc on March 15, 2025, 09:13:56 am
I manage the Google bot through their site. I requested indexing since a lot of pages weren't indexed.
Thank you Marc, I appreciate that.
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Re: I'm wondering, what kind of attack the forum is under now?!?
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2025, 06:54:00 pm »
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