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setubal

10-17-2009, 10:42 AM

Hello,

Its impossible.

My little forum has TOO many connected visitors (end off page) :
http://www.portugal-tchat.com/forum/?langid=1

More thant 30.000 and the record is : 72.000 visitors online.

How could it be possible ? My forum are being attacked ? Dos Attak maybe ?
90% visitors
10% search engine (msn, yahoo, google etc..)
Thanks for your help.

devlin2010

10-17-2009, 11:27 AM

Sounds like a flood attack of some sort.Should look into putting a firewall up or some protection on your server to prevent it.

JamesC70

10-17-2009, 03:56 PM

I'm wondering if maybe it's a spider that's not detected as a spider. A quick check of your Who's Online guests shows 10 of 16 randomly selected connections as MSNbot plus 1 Googlebot. Most all connections were looking at your chatbox archive.

You might try something like this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=152321) to cut down on the spiders being displayed on Who's Online.... or edit .htaccess to slow those bots down, or set your chatbox archive to only be viewable by members.

bynon

10-19-2009, 03:27 AM

I had the same problem after banning a troublemaker. I solved it by installing a small Cisco PIX firewall. True DOS attacks are difficult to fight without a hardware firewall.