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What for God's sake is going on? 391 guests. The forum response is dead slow since hours. Where do we get 391 guests from?

Bye Fridger

Yes, it's dead slow for me too.

I find this huge number of guests very suspicious. Or is it ? Maybe it's an hacker attempt to overload the board ? Maybe some company which is making a commercial astronomy software doesn't like the free Celestia idea ?

Cham wrote:Yes, it's dead slow for me too.

I find this huge number of guests very suspicious. Or is it ? Maybe it's an hacker attempt to overload the board ? Maybe some company which is making a commercial astronomy software doesn't like the free Celestia idea ?

It's a reappearance of the same worm that damaged shatters.net back in December by exploiting a vulnerability in phpBB. After the attack, I upgraded phpBB to 2.0.11 so that shatters.net won't be defaced, but the worm is still generating a huge amount of traffic. I believe that I've now fixed the problem by adding an Apache server rewriting rule that returns an error to any worm-generated HTTP requests. This should drastically cut down the amount of bandwidth wasted.

--Chris

The guest number was nearing 600 when I logged in today.

Michael Kilderry