Heads-up: IP bans

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Oliver Behnke
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27 Mar 2023 14:16:48 UTC
Topic 229307
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    Hi everyone,

    Since our servers are being flooded by bogus (if not malicious) requests we decided to ban the culprits, based on certain request rate thresholds. We can't share the actual values to not give those attackers a clue how to adjust their approach. However, since all rate limiting can also affect legitimate users, please report back if you find yourself running into connection issues when browsing our website or when requesting new tasks.

    Please bear with us while we're trying to strike the balance between catching the culprits and not affecting any of our volunteers.

    Thank you,
    Oliver

     

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    Joseph Howden
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    Thank you! 

    27 Mar 2023 14:42:43 UTC
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      Thank you! 

      GWGeorge007
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      Thank you Oliver!  I hope you

      27 Mar 2023 14:58:59 UTC
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        Thank you Oliver!  I hope you catch the culprits!

        George

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        Keith Myers
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        Don't know when you

        27 Mar 2023 16:15:23 UTC
        Message 210282 in response to message 210278
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          Don't know when you implemented your scheme to catch the culprits, but I have noticed slower connections to the website in over a week.  Most notable in how long it takes the forums to refresh since I spend a lot of time in the forums.

           

          Oliver Behnke
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          Hi Keith,You noticed the

          27 Mar 2023 18:45:00 UTC
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            Hi Keith,

            You noticed the effect of what the bad guys were doing, not our counter-measures. We started to mitigate things on Friday but without affecting anyone of you guys. Response times should have been better since then. Today we started with more radical measures but already disabled those again, for the time being.

            We'll keep you posted.

            Oliver

             

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