Members Getting Banned from server

[Battle_Ring]

Some members are getting banned by my server people for having too many connections open, when in fact they only have 2 screens with the site open.

They say its something with who my forum is configed and not on there end.

HEre is the report they sent

When I opened your main page this many connections were opened:

IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:53 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 14551 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/vbulletin_important.css?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/yui/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/yui/connection/connection-min.js?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/ame.js HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/vbulletin_read_marker.js?v=384 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /clientscript/fbconnect.js HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/morbid_b/logo.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/misc/navbits_start.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/morbid_b/bgimg.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:54 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/misc/menu_open.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/statusicon/subforum_old.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /images/icons/icon1.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP- - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/buttons/lastpost.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/gradients/gradient_thead.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/statusicon/forum_old.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /images/icons/icon7.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/statusicon/forum_new.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /images/icons/icon14.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /images/icons/icon3.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/buttons/collapse_thead.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP - - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/misc/whos_online.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
IP- - [12/Nov/2009:04:19:55 +0000] "GET /morbid_blueb/misc/stats.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.biggestloserfans.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"


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Any idea what could cause this?

[Lynne]

Do you have vbfirewall installed? (I think that's the mod - vbSomething). Try disabling your modifications/plugins and see if you still have this problem.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

[Battle_Ring]

No i dont have vbfirewall installed. Theres no way for me to test this as it never happens to me only other members and only certain times

[porcupine73]

I don't know. I loaded three windows at a time to your site without a problem. What on your server limits the number of simultaneous connections from an ip address? There must be something on there.

[Battle_Ring]

i have removed all plug ins while i try to figure this out. The host tell me theres only so many connections allowed per ip addy

[kh99]

I'm not an expert on that stuff, but it looks to me like that's a server log showing requests, and there isn't necessarily one connection made per request. That doesn't look like an unusual number of requests for loading a page.