[RESOLVED] Forum errors have returned

[yereverluvinuncleber]

404 errors, slow to respond, same old problems currently

[OptionBase1]

Looks like some sort of mass traffic attack. All of the forums and subforums reportedly have hundreds or even 1000+ active users. There is never anywhere close to that much traffic, especially in the fringe categories of XAML, Mobile Development, etc.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, over 56,000 users at the moment. Spread out across every forum, too.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

They are ALL interested in TwinBasic.

[Zvoni]

Yep. 504 here a few moments ago.
57K Users online.
Would be intersting to "compare" the IP-Ranges....

[Arnoutdv]

Wow...
There are currently 54523 users online. 14 members and 54509 guests
Most users ever online was 58,305, Today at 05:30 AM.

[Steve R Jones]

In theory, the IT guys are getting a ton of ALERTS on their end.... The following probably has something to do with it:

Five random samples out of eleven sites.
There are currently 4,964 users online. 1 members and 4963 guests
There are currently 4,524 users online. 1 members and 4523 guests
There are currently 25,632 users online. 2 members and 25630 guests
There are currently 56,186 users online. 14 members and 56172 guests -(VBForums)
There are currently 932 users online. 1 members and 931 guests -(VDR)

The F5 key helps....sometimes.

[Arnoutdv]

And still increasing:
There are currently 58918 users online. 15 members and 58903 guests
Most users ever online was 58,918, Today at 10:29 AM.

[sapator]

DOS attack.
Better start blocking addresses mainly from China.

[Peter Porter]

Must have been a DOS attack. We're now down to around 2,500 guests now.

[Steve R Jones]

Site seems to be better... Just came from a sister site and it too was flying.

[Peter Porter]

Site seems to be better... Just came from a sister site and it too was flying.

It's going off the charts again.

Must be an unhappy spammer doing this.

[jpbro]

It's going off the charts again.

Must be an unhappy spammer doing this.

Or the OpenAI/ChatGPT bot...been hearing it's been giving grief to quite a few sites lately, must feed the beast! Maybe it's trying to learn all it can about twinBasic now

[Steve R Jones]

My desktop is getting a weird access denied message and can't enter.. phone is ok.

[Steve R Jones]

406. Not Acceptable... on all 11 sites.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The number if over 58K, at the moment.

[wes4dbt]

Had a new one today. Got a

Forbidden Error 403 something about not being authorized to use the site.

Thought maybe I had been banned. Then it dawned on me that I can't get on the site how do I find out whats going on. I found the site FB page but not much activity there.

[Steve R Jones]

406. Not Acceptable... on all 11 sites.

My phone and Chromebook could access all the sites but my desktop couldn't... Just did a reboot and all is well.

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[VB6 Programming]

Still getting 504 - Gateway Timeout

Rebooting router and PC helps, but problem keeps returning.

[Zvoni]

Definitely looks like bots and/or AI-Clients

Just took a look, what those "guests" were viewing, and there were a lot of old threads, even some 22 years old
which a user "aliciasmith" replied today
see here: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....55#post5668055

That post looks like something an AI would spout

[2kaud]

This morning still getting several 504 errors......

[brad jones]

Several years ago there was a DoS sample program posted (code for doing a DoS Attack) on another site that had VBForums as the default site. I wonder if that code has made a comeback somewhere.....

[sapator]

Block China and India addresses first.
Then report.

[Steve R Jones]

There are currently 9,688 users online. 16 members and 9672 guests (12:20pm)

56,717 users online (3:00 am)

I haven't gotten the error in a while.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Had a new one today. Got a

Forbidden Error 403 something about not being authorized to use the site.

Thought maybe I had been banned. Then it dawned on me that I can't get on the site how do I find out whats going on. I found the site FB page but not much activity there.

That's not what you'd get from a ban. Unless things have changed, you'd get a page that told you that you had been banned, and usually has some reason.

[Steve R Jones]

That's not what you'd get from a ban. Unless things have changed, you'd get a page that told you that you had been banned, and usually has some reason.

Looking back on it now, the IT guy(s) probably took the sites offline for a bit.

Don't know bout you guys, I don't appreciate fast interest enough....until it's gone.

[Peter Porter]

I did a count a few minutes ago when the number of visitors was 8106. From this number, exactly 4601 users are spread throughtout the forums on VBForums. The rest, 3505, are just staring at the homepage.

[Steve R Jones]

fixed/resolved