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User Discussions => Welcome & Notices => Topic started by: Jim on September 29, 2025, 06:53:37 pm

Title: Bots on the server
Post by: Jim on September 29, 2025, 06:53:37 pm

Bots that look to be in China are hitting the server hard seemingly often the forum. It much more than I recall seeing before and enough to affect performance of the server.  I am considering taking down the forum temporarily and possibly suspending TM overall while I figure out how to limit them...

Title: Re: Bots on the server
Post by: vdeane on September 29, 2025, 09:12:18 pm

Could what's used on the AARoads Wiki be used here?

Title: Re: Bots on the server
Post by: Jim on September 29, 2025, 09:35:21 pm

I've asked for advice from the Siena network admins, and now the load is back to normal or less.  Hopefully it's something they've done.  I'll leave the forum active for now.

Title: Re: Bots on the server
Post by: Jim on September 30, 2025, 12:54:40 pm

Bots hitting the forum remain very low.  I still plan to block web requests from all of (at least) China on the server itself or have that done at the network level before the requests even get there.

Title: Re: Bots on the server
Post by: rschen7754 on September 30, 2025, 09:26:18 pm

We had to both use Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) and block Alibaba IP addresses at the firewall level in order to get things to a manageable state.