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hokan
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Quote: Sorry but the board is temporarily unavailable, please try again in a few minutes. Anything you care to share with us?
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:41 am |
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 Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 amPosts: 7209
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Yeah, I've been getting this intermittently for the past few days. Usually a refresh after a few seconds clears it.
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bjorn
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:27 pm |
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 Praying to God for the Flamme RougeJoined: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:05 pmPosts: 2527Location: Nordeast
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We have been having an issue where when spambots are hitting us hard, it can bring down our server, affecting other sites' performance and reliability. While we wait for some new hardware to go online at our ISP, we have deployed a utility which disables the board if the 1-minute load average on the server exceeds 0.9.
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hokan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:57 pm |
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Ouch. Sort of a DDoS, I suppose.
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:28 pm |
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| Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 amPosts: 7209
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This is getting very annoying. I think I'm going to take a break from bikelove for a while.
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JenNastix wrote: You guys ever wonder if we're over-thinking this bike riding thing sometimes? |
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DangHeim
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:37 pm |
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 Can't... stop... doing... the Monkey TagJoined: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:49 amPosts: 1370Location: Como Park
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My pea brain can't stop thinking a simple remedy to the spambot problem would be new members require mod approval before posting. No?
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Snak Shak
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:38 pm |
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omgmrj wrote: This is getting very annoying. I think I'm going to take a break from bikelove for a while. Yah, no kidding.
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hokan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:16 am |
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Need more moderators?
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bjorn
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:19 am |
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| Praying to God for the Flamme RougeJoined: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:05 pmPosts: 2527Location: Nordeast
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We have taken some additional countermeasures that should prevent the board from going offline or being disabled, namely using mod_evasive for apache. omgmrj wrote: This is getting very annoying. I think I'm going to take a break from bikelove for a while. Hopefully this change will improve board uptime. DangHeim wrote: My pea brain can't stop thinking a simple remedy to the spambot problem would be new members require mod approval before posting. No? While bogus users and actual spam are a problem that could be remedied by an approval process, we are trying to do a minimum of changes while we work on the new platform. It also doesn't solve the problem of non-users (whether bogus or not) hitting the server so hard that it brings down the machine--and this is the real problem. I am also loathe to require approval for new users, as many users come to the forum with time-sensitive information about thefts, collisions, and breaking news. hokan wrote: Need more moderators? No, I think we're good for now.
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DangHeim
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:32 pm |
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| Can't... stop... doing... the Monkey TagJoined: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:49 amPosts: 1370Location: Como Park
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Thanks for doing what you do despite all the spammy bastards, bjorn et al.
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livewombat
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:04 pm |
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 Secret: wants a tall bikeJoined: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:26 pmPosts: 428Location: Minneapolis
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Yes, thanks!
I'm wondering if the current software allows you to limit new users to 5 or 10 posts per day. That might keep some of these Warez trolls from filling up every single thread with their spammy crap.
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bc3
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:27 pm |
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 Secret: wants a tall bikeJoined: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:06 amPosts: 422Location: South Minneapolis - Central
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MBL spammer of the day.
On today's menu we have:
Whereelob
Hapgualanogma
vanieflyBaile
All fresh this Saturday.
Seriously, why are all these spammers getting through? Why is MBL such an easy target?
Thanks, Bill.
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Volsung
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:41 pm |
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 Does this bike make my tires look fat?Joined: Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:18 pmPosts: 660Location: Audubon Park
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Where are these spammers posting from? Can we just ban IPs from that country?
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Shizzy
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:45 am |
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bc3 wrote:
Seriously, why are all these spammers getting through? Why is MBL such an easy target?
Thanks, Bill.
This. How soon till this upgrade?
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livewombat
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:56 pm |
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| Secret: wants a tall bikeJoined: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:26 pmPosts: 428Location: Minneapolis
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Shizzy wrote: bc3 wrote:
Seriously, why are all these spammers getting through? Why is MBL such an easy target?
Thanks, Bill.
This. How soon till this upgrade? It looks as if there must be a 34 or 35 post limit for each new screen name, since that's what they've all posted. Maybe cutting back to 5 for new members would help a bit, at least until the new defenses can be deployed.
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