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Resource Limit 508 - Russian attack
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:54 pm
by wollastoni
Hello all,
The forum has been offline for few hours due to a ddos attack from Russia.
We have found a technical solution.
Hope they won't come back soon as I will be in Laos in the next 2 weeks and don't have time to work a more solid solution right now
Cheers
Olivier
Re: Resource Limit 508 - Russian attack
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 10:05 am
by wollastoni
Hello
We had another attack yesterday.
I have now activated a Cloudflare protection to the forum to avoid bots ruining the server.
There is now a security page checking you are human before accessing the forum.
Hope it will help
Olivier
Re: Resource Limit 508 - Russian attack
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 12:50 pm
by Chuck
Thanks Olivier. Keep our fingers crossed. AI can of course click that box, but should make it a bit harder now.
I wonder if the hosting company can be asked to limit traffic (ie block masses of DoS messages).
Re: Resource Limit 508 - Russian attack
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 1:24 pm
by wollastoni
It is already done.
I have also add some anti bots measures in our htaccess file and so on.
I hope it will be enough. There are other solutions but at a high price...
Re: Resource Limit 508 - Russian attack
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 2:42 pm
by kevinkk
wollastoni wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 10:05 am
There is now a security page checking you are human before accessing the forum.
It works too! It knew I was human. Somehow. Well, if it's using my camera, beware.