Too many connections

[Lynne]

Too many connections is separate from the query issue.

You can read about the datastore cache here in the manual - The vBulletin Datastore

[pitzerwm]

thanks

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Update: IX gives me 50 connections, its a shared server. They suggested Throttle Policy, set 30/15sec, which I did (their 2nd suggestion to deny whole countries.

The attack still occurred. I can live with this, it started a month ago, why I don't know, but I think/hope that it will someday move on, when they accomplish nothing.

If you happen to think of something, please let me know

Thanks for your help.

[pitzerwm]

Update, Tonight at 10:15 I turned off the site, at 10:19 the "too many connections" emails started?

This isn't what I expected, any suggestions?

Thanks

[Lynne]

People are coming to the site even though it is off.

Have you looked at your access_logs to see what pages they are hitting at the time you get the error?

[Boofo]

Sounds like spiders are hitting the site hard.

[Max Taxable]

Get CloudFlare. Set security to medium, then disallow China.

The attacks would then hit CloudFlare and not you, and as a CDN, CF will also speed up your load times..

You can add any country, or any custom IP ranges in your CF settings.

[pitzerwm]

Lynne, The pages are random, just post/threads in the forum

Boofo, any other solution that you feel will work?

Max, I looked at CF and see there is a free one, do you just sign up and you or they apply it to the forum root?

Thanks for your help.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by pitzerwm

Max, I looked at CF and see there is a free one, do you just sign up and you or they apply it to the forum root?

Nope you'll change your nameservers to the ones they assign you and do one file edit to make your visitor IP addresses still come out right.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=259173

[pitzerwm]

Max, I read all of the info, from the other forum/s and it looks like a solution. Did you have any issues? I see where you change the db in the config file and I tested the FTP change, what is the other change that you need to make that they talk about. Is the DNS the actual db "location"?

Lynne, have you seen any issues with CF? Apparently, they have some working relationship with many host, but I didn't see IX in their list.

Thanks again for every ones help

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by pitzerwm

Max, I read all of the info, from the other forum/s and it looks like a solution. Did you have any issues? I see where you change the db in the config file and I tested the FTP change, what is the other change that you need to make that they talk about. Is the DNS the actual db "location"?

All I did was edit the file, then assign my domain the nameservers CF provided. Than in CF you go through all the DNS settings to make sure it picked everything up. On mine, it did no problem.

I have had zero problems with CF and it's been great to have.

You are not editing the config file, you edit class_core.php like this:

1. open includes/class_core.php

2.

Find: function fetch_ip() { return $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; }

replace with:

function fetch_ip() { if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP'])) { return $_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP']; } return $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; }


Find:

function fetch_alt_ip() { $alt_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) { $alt_ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; }


Replace with:

function fetch_alt_ip() { $alt_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP'])) { $alt_ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP']; } else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) { $alt_ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; }


3. upload and overwrite