6 registered users, 1 hidden & 391 guests!!!

Post #1by **t00fri** » 24.01.2005, 22:19

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

Cham · Post #2by **Cham** » 24.01.2005, 23:18

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 ?

Post #3by **chris** » 25.01.2005, 02:50

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

Michael Kilderry · Post #4by **Michael Kilderry** » 25.01.2005, 02:55

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

Michael Kilderry