StopForumSpam down

[Panzer Max]

No new registrations since noon, checked downornot.com and confirmed, it's down.

[HMBeaty]

Well, that.....sucks

[Adrian Schneider]

I'm actually surprised that the mods which use it here do not have better error handling... It's a pretty critical part of a site to just allow it to break like that.

Hopefully it's back up soon!

[Eric]

It's not affecting the API.

EDIT: at least it wasn't - but it appears to be down completely now.

[Lynne]

Can you not just disable the mod and go back to regular registration?

This sounds like you may want to post in the modification thread and ask the mod author is there is a way around this.

[vijayninel]

It's down but registrations are not affected on my forum ..

[Panzer Max]

There's no Enable/Disable for the vB mod, but you can disable the three settings:
Test IP address
Test User name
Test Email Address
and then it will continue accepting new registrations, without connecting to the SFS db (as best as I can tell).


Or, you can make the change to:
Query Connection Errors
What should happen if the remote connection times out when querying the new registration?
and Allow Registrations

I noticed no new registrations for several hours and checked the SFS statistics, and saw a ton of:
Result on field username - luk14lukboss [REMOTEERR] Unverfied and rejected by policy

It was rejecting all new signups.

It's down but registrations are not affected on my forum ..

Yeah? Pretty neat.

PS: Check your email when you have time, Eric

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Well, now the site says:

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

The api is currently serving requests and once we get the site back up, we can feed it new submissions

Sorry about the downtime, sometimes it just cant be helped

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Nah, it's still not working, still getting

twainkate 2011-06-15 00:42:25 twain.kate@yahoo.com 117.204.145.211 Result on field username - twainkate [REMOTEERR] Unverfied and rejected by policy
kellybd 2011-06-15 00:39:21 john@animalwelfareaction.org 24.148.49.230 Result on field username - kellybd [REMOTEERR] Unverfied and rejected by policy

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Well, we're not getting any more spammers than normal, guess Q&A is holding all but humans at bay.

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Lol, I must be the only person this concerns, I'm spamming my own post

Enabled SFS plug in just now, appears that SFS is processing the APIs again, even though the site is still down:

ZeskAnitnek 2011-06-15 10:22:35 r1m87@mail.ru 91.220.253.74 Result on field ip - 91.220.253.74 - Spammer and rejected by policy
cydramymend 2011-06-15 10:16:00 khgd@gmail.com 178.137.152.180 Result on field ip - 178.137.152.180 - Spammer and rejected by policy
leinewht2i 2011-06-15 10:15:12 rtrgdfee@163.com 59.58.137.176 Allowed registration
Daliprida 2011-06-15 10:10:40 Fraunnycymn@hotblogers.com 174.138.160.253 Allowed registration
Daliprida 2011-06-15 10:10:39 Fraunnycymn@hotblogers.com 174.138.160.253 Allowed registration

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Their site is back