Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Actually it's a bit of both.



On the one hand, the forum firewall is seeing a lot of requests from a select range of IPs, to the point where it smells like a DOS attack.



On the other hand, CloudFlare is proxying everything it receives... through a selec...



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Quote from: Kindred on Today at 03:39:50 PM

Illori,



except for the fact that I suspect his problem lies with the forum firewall, which has its own routines...

that is what arantor said was the fix....



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Illori,



except for the fact that I suspect his problem lies with the forum firewall, which has its own routines...





Levely,

SMF does not autoban - I suggest you take it up with the forum firewall mod author.



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Quote from: jackc on Yesterday at 08:34:46 AM

Edit: Adding this to the top of my index.php file fixed it without the need for a mod:



if($_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP']){

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_C...

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

The tip I linked to above does pretty much the same thing.



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

http://ift.tt/1AjlAOR



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Quote from: Arantor on Today at 01:16:36 PM

Somewhere around here is a tweak that will detect CF and get the real IP address for you.

I wasn't able to locate the tweak with search, would anyone be so kind as ...



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

I did say something about paranoid enthusiasm?



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Those are all CloudFlare IP addresses.



So anything that comes in will come over that IP address range and appear to be an attack when it actually isn't.



Somewhere around here is a tweak that will detect CF and get the real IP address for you.



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

I'm actually suspecting it's the Forum Firewall mod having its typical level of paranoid enthusiasm.



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

I'm wondering if they really are DoS attacks. Moving to CloudFlare probably saw the CloudFlare IP's as causing an attack because it was their servers hitting your site instead of real IP's. (So perhaps you hadnt configured CF yet on the forum? Eg: see ...



Re: MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?

Just got an email from a user who was automatically banned from the forum for a DOS attack (Just so happens he shares an IP address with another member who's a programmer and a competitor.) Go figure!



Anyway, I started looking into the ban logs (which ...



MSN, Google, Ahrefs Banned For DOS Attack?