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Browser, version and OS: iOS 14.2 firefox

 

Steps to reproduce/what were you doing before it happened?

Nothing

 

What happened?

Either a cloudflare check that would run multiple times, or a server overloaded screen (pics below)

 

What did you expect to happen?

The site to load normall as it has for a long time now until the last day or two

 

Link to a page where it happened, if applicable: 

Main page

Screenshots of the issue, if applicable: 

See below

Any other relevant details:

Not really

 

If it's a cloudflare error, what was the ray ID from the bottom of the error page?


ID changed every few seconds.  Caught two of them in images.

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Forums have been getting DDOS'd most of the night. This is a mitigation tactic by Cloudflare and expected when server load is very high. 

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Can confirm it happened when i logged in on pc as well. havent tried mobile myself yet tho probably can close this thread though.

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Forums have been getting DDOS'd most of the night. This is a mitigation tactic by Cloudflare and expected when server load is very high. 

 

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It's holiday time, people are using this website as a reference.

It's normal, just like back in black friday - cyber monday.

So high usage + daily bot ddos.

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13 minutes ago, Aereth Nvaren said:

are you using a vpn?

No.  I could though if it would help.

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Just now, Bombastinator said:

No.  I could though if it would help.

that would cause more of an issue with cloudflare. Id recommend clearing your cache if it keeps doing it over the next few days. Should be resolved soon

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15 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Forums have been getting DDOS'd most of the night. This is a mitigation tactic by Cloudflare and expected when server load is very high. 

Yay.  Some botnet criminal having a temper tantrum.  Fight the good fight I guess.  Props for keeping the site up under barrage i guess

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Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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3 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Yay.  Some botnet criminal having a temper tantrum.  Fight the good fight I guess.  Props for keeping the site up under barrage i guess

Botnet probably attacked random top 10.000 website in the world (which LTT are in).

Specifically target LTT is not reasonable, since there's little to gain here (just a forum).

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I don't want to sound like a dick, but did you not see the two most recent posts in this topic? They are both about the same thing and both got a response from a mod confirming the forum was experiencing a DDoS attack. 

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9 minutes ago, The_russian said:

I don't want to sound like a dick, but did you not see the two most recent posts in this topic? They are both about the same thing and both got a response from a mod confirming the forum was experiencing a DDoS attack. 

I don’t want to sound like an idiot, but I did not.  I was unaware till I saw those screens.  

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Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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1 hour ago, colonel_mortis said:

This is part of our efforts to mitigate a DDoS attack

It's quite persistent then as I'm still getting the errors mentioned by the OP hours ago. In addition, when I use the page back button in the browser I get an empty-ish page saying the data is no longer available and allowing me to refresh. That usually works, occasionally to be repeated multiple times. Still, the alternative is no LTT forum (which is the goal of that DDOS attack) so I'll live with it. :)

 

Many thanks to all admin staff (including the ISP!) keeping the site running!

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Just now, Dutch_Master said:

It's quite persistent then as I'm still getting the errors mentioned by the OP hours ago. In addition, when I use the page back button in the browser I get an empty-ish page saying the data is no longer available and allowing me to refresh. That usually works, occasionally to be repeated multiple times. Still, the alternative is no LTT forum (which is the goal of that DDOS attack) so I'll live with it. :)

 

Many thanks to all admin staff (including the ISP!) keeping the site running!

You shouldn't be encountering any more issues, we've turned the aggressive DDoS mitigation mode off again. If you are still seeing the Cloudflare DDoS protection page, what's the Ray ID on there?

HTTP/2 203

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2 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

If you are still seeing the Cloudflare DDoS protection page, what's the Ray ID on there?

I hadn't noticed these, so unfortunately I can't tell. If I encounter any more I'll let you know, but as you've turned it off now I doubt I would see it again.

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