Potential IP Blocks

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wserra
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Potential IP Blocks

Post by wserra »

If you look towards the bottom of the index page, you'll see the following:
Most users ever online was 4475 on Sun May 04, 2025 6:58 am
That was yesterday. Over the last couple of months, I've noticed from time to time we have 200 or more people online. We can handle a couple of hundred, but 4500 amounts to a DDoS attack - intentional or not.

Most of those people come through the same IP blocks. If I see this suspicious behavior going forward, I intend to block the offending IPs. If legit users try to log in from one of those IP blocks, they (of course) will not be able to do so. Hopefully that will not be the case. If it is, I suggest a VPN or an anonymizer such as Tor. Sorry for any inconvenience, but 4500 people will make the board unavailable to everyone.
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