13-09-2023, 04:17 PM
Thanks Peter
The majority of the IP addresses trace back to various Russian Federation entities.
They won't do much other than force me to put the static page back up for a few days, certainly won't get much info !
Regardless, the forum will be back up in due course.
Doug
LATE PPS :
The forum was taken off-line again for a number of hours today (14Sep23) due to rapidly rising accesses, at least some of which were from the Russian Federation (again !).
I am going to take a different approach for the near future : I will IP-ban whole ranges of V4 addresses where the visitor count is rising quickly due to similtaneous multi-IP accesses and those bans will be permanent. A single user only causes a single log entry, bots and hackers can generate large numbers of logged entries in a short time from different IPs.
I know ithe banning won't solve it all but will put in place reduced access from some geographic areas, and this will be extended as more hack attempts appear. At least I should be able to leave the actual forum active.
Symptom : If your IP range gets banned then you simply will not get browser access to the forum...
This may also affect undocumented search engine bots that traverse the forum : it won't be able to access or update into the future. The main ones like Google, Bing etc are well documented and will not face exclusion.
Posted at 5:30PM EAST 14Sep23
The majority of the IP addresses trace back to various Russian Federation entities.
They won't do much other than force me to put the static page back up for a few days, certainly won't get much info !
Regardless, the forum will be back up in due course.
Doug
LATE PPS :
The forum was taken off-line again for a number of hours today (14Sep23) due to rapidly rising accesses, at least some of which were from the Russian Federation (again !).
I am going to take a different approach for the near future : I will IP-ban whole ranges of V4 addresses where the visitor count is rising quickly due to similtaneous multi-IP accesses and those bans will be permanent. A single user only causes a single log entry, bots and hackers can generate large numbers of logged entries in a short time from different IPs.
I know ithe banning won't solve it all but will put in place reduced access from some geographic areas, and this will be extended as more hack attempts appear. At least I should be able to leave the actual forum active.
Symptom : If your IP range gets banned then you simply will not get browser access to the forum...
This may also affect undocumented search engine bots that traverse the forum : it won't be able to access or update into the future. The main ones like Google, Bing etc are well documented and will not face exclusion.
Posted at 5:30PM EAST 14Sep23
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