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Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:40 am
by HigashiJun
New feedback: everything seems OK for me since yesterday. I logged in several times without any glitches.

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:43 am
by Dbug
Hmm, I guess that's good, just wish I knew why!

From the Apache logs, the only things remaining are the DokuWiki errors:
Declaration of action_plugin_importoldchangelog::register(&$controller) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Action_Plugin::register(Doku_Event_Handler $controller) in /media/disk-1/www/www_wiki/lib/plugins/importoldchangelog/action.php on line 8
PHP Warning: Declaration of action_plugin_importoldindex::register(&$controller) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Action_Plugin::register(Doku_Event_Handler $controller) in /media/disk-1/www/www_wiki/lib/plugins/importoldindex/action.php on line 0

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:32 am
by HigashiJun
Sorry Dbug to bring bad news, but it was a pain again to connect now (18:30 in Japan, 10:30 in France)...

Everything was OK during 2 days until now. :(

What's going on ?

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:44 am
by Symoon
11:40 (France) : everything seems perfect with "In total there are 27 users online" Instead of the 200-300 that were permanently listed before.

11h41: trying to post the above, got timed out.
When I reached back the forum (still 11h41), there were more than 100 users reported.

11h42: still lots of timeouts and 219 users reported.

Looks like something/someone is flooding the forum? Or could it be our actions that do something that creates fake users?

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:06 pm
by ibisum
Seems to me more like a DDOS is going on .. I've seen intermittent responses like the others, and occasionally after you do something to the server it gets much better, performance-wise, but then when you leave it alone for an hour or so, it all goes pear shaped.

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:10 pm
by Dbug
If it's DDOSS, possibly I will have to see if I can apply the exclusion list on the router itself instead of the webserver.

In the meantime, I got myself a new drive for the server (been out buying it in a shop, trying to not get caught by zombies roaming around Oslo city center) and I'll try to do some maintenance on the machine this evening, so expect some down time.

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:46 pm
by Dbug
I updated the .htaccess ban list with the latest from https://www.wizcrafts.net/chinese-blocklist_2_4.html

We will see if that somewhat helps.

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:48 pm
by ibisum
Certainly seems very snappy now!

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:56 pm
by HigashiJun
Great, everything seems alright now !

:D

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:45 am
by coco.oric
Seems quicker as my oric-1
Thanks

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:44 am
by Symoon
Absolutely perfect now.
And just check the amount of users on the main page: 10 times less!
Thanks!

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:26 am
by Dbug
Looks like this list of IPs will have to be updated regularly, but that seems to have an effect:
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Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:04 pm
by Dbug
Since the last remaining warnings on the error.log were related to dokuwiki, I removed the remnants of the two plugins "importoldindex" and "importoldchangelog", for all I see, the wiki is still working, but please poke me if you notice anything wrong.

I can now clearly see that some people are trying to find hacks in the server:
- script '/var/www/www.defence-force.org/computing/demo/sc ... -login.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http://next.atari.org/wp-login.php
- script '/var/www/defence-force.com/wp-login.php' not found or unable to stat
- some attempts at finding a "php sysinfo"

etc...

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 10:11 pm
by mikeb
It's back ...

In total there are 238 users online :: 2 registered, 0 hidden and 236 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

Me: 90.155. 95.134

Getting:
Connection to 37.191.243.240 Failed
(110) Connection timed out

Sun May 3 21:52:49 BST 2020
to
Sun May 3 22:09:41 BST 2020

Re: Connectivity problems (again)

Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 4:24 am
by HigashiJun
Yup, same problem here...

A pain to get logged-in and post something.

Hope Dbug could resolve this issue soon.

Cheers.