Denial of Service attack?

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Originally Posted by Eevo

the db is public facing?

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no

the db itself and most of the ports are not

but dns and a couple of others are because i need them open for maintenance purposes etc.

if it is being ornery use the custom google search at the bottom of the page

any builtin search function eg new posts has a 30sec wait at the moment to lessen loads...

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Originally Posted by incisor

no

the db itself and most of the ports are not

but dns and a couple of others are because i need them open for maintenance purposes etc.

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phew, you had me worried there

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Originally Posted by Tombie

Inc

From a generic point of view - do you know where “they” are originating from?

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not normally

the packets are masqueraded and it is usually from a swarm of compromised machines scattered to hell and back...

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Originally Posted by incisor

not normally

the packets are masqueraded and it is usually from a swarm of compromised machines scattered to hell and back...

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Well your doing a pretty damn good job keeping it up then man. As a user i appreciate the efforts you go to. Cheers.