Some unexpected downtime from some not very nice people!

[Apoc]

Well, we got our first proper 'attack' in quite a few months today.

Unfortunately, I was a bit busy and didn't catch it fast enough. The server dropped for roughly an hour today due to massive connection flood. (We were receiving upwards of 19k connections per second)

Luckily, I get to be lazy. The person attacking us was doing all this from a single IP.

If you got caught in the downtime, I apologize!

[alj03]

Damn that guy. Thanks for letting us know!

[=-Hope-=]

If you could share his IP / Subnet it would be great

[ReidE96]

If you could share his IP / Subnet it would be great

No, no, no, we don't let folk attack back - we let them get taken by the party van.

[thubab2]

Well, we got our first proper 'attack' in quite a few months today.

Unfortunately, I was a bit busy and didn't catch it fast enough. The server dropped for roughly an hour today due to massive connection flood. (We were receiving upwards of 19k connections per second)
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Luckily, I get to be lazy. The person attacking us was doing all this from a single IP.

If you got caught in the downtime, I apologize!

In the past I would have been like you, and everything is fine!

[Giwin]

SUrly some proper protection is needed, it all came from one address so it should have been blocked automaticly with mod_rewrite (or write).