Global forums can't block entire countries. And nobody wants to block dynamic 'pool' IPs which could be used by legitimate people tomorrow.
Ours is a local forum, so we've got entire swaths of the planet blocked - like most of Africa and the far east. But as I said, that's not effective against this latest phenomena which seem to come from all over. Oh and no, ours weren't all looking at attachments - they were all doing different things.
But I agree it seems to have slowed down because I haven't seen any of the really huge server-killing attacks for a couple months. Recently they seem to top out at 200 or so, which is still annoying because I have to reset the "most online" counter manually.
06-19-2011, 03:50 PM
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