Posted: 8/28/2012 4:13 AM
Post subject: Forum search disabled
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Nach
Emulator Coder
Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
It seems a DoS attack was launched against us via the forum search feature. Constant attacks from many different IP addresses with a user agent from Firefox 14. For the time being, I have disabled forum search.
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Posted: 8/28/2012 4:18 AM
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jlun2
Skilled player (1741)
Joined: 9/17/2009
Posts: 4981
Location: ̶C̶a̶n̶a̶d̶a̶ "Kanatah"
GBA TASer of 2010
So that's why I wasn't able to enter the site/forums. Thanks for posting this.
LLCoolDave wrote:
This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 8/28/2012 4:40 AM
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Nach
Emulator Coder
Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
Okay, I took an idea from ais523. The search page now redirects. The attacks are still occurring, but either the IPs are all spoofed, so they're not seeing the redirect, or the attack software isn't programmed to properly handle redirects.
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