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SM website response issues reported

Rosco Bodine - 26-4-2012 at 06:44

Don't know if this post will appear but the website is responding slowly for me and there could be an issue.

There reportedly are 97 guests and that seems unlikely and one or more of those guests may be taking the bandwidth

the page loading seems to crawl on the xpblue/boardlogo.png file
and with so many "guests" it could be a DoS attack somehow .....perhaps involving that logo image file in some sort of loop refresh.... or maybe a corrupted image file

It looks like a possible DoS attack from here.

Is anybody else experiencing the slow response ?



[Edited on 26-4-2012 by Rosco Bodine]

Rosco Bodine - 26-4-2012 at 08:54

Check this for relevance

http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/securi...

Rosco Bodine - 26-4-2012 at 09:54

The problem involving the site slowdown seems to have cleared for now.

That's odd ....it was really crawling for several hours.

Polverone - 26-4-2012 at 11:38

Thanks for reporting this issue. There are now 87 guests online; I don't remember if that is a high value or not. The load on the server at present is minimal. There is currently one IP address blocked for excessive use; it's possible that the person behind that address was slowing the site down until the blocking rule activated.