Admin Tools

#26858 Sustained attacks

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Latest post by on Thursday, 09 February 2017 17:17 CST

Tuesday, 10 January 2017 03:27 CST

ianpanorton

Hi - Admin Tools is doing its job perfectly, but my server appears to be under sustained attack and I wondered if you could share any thoughts with me.

I have about a dozen sites on my server, and all are being attacked with failed logins or spam form entries.

One in particular www.roberttearle.com - is getting automated IP blocking 20 or 30 times a day and more, several different IP addresses within seconds, and most appearing to come from the Russian Federation.

I have geo blocking enabled on this site and have excluded RU, but it seems to make no difference.

I feel I'm sitting here powerless just waiting for one of their attacks so succeed...

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ian

Tuesday, 10 January 2017 03:56 CST

tampe125

Hello Ian,

I'm sorry but in this cases the only thing you can do is to old the fort and wait for the attack to pass.
You'll eventually block all attacker IPs or he will get tired and give up. There's very little for you to do :(

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017 04:39 CST

ianpanorton

As I feared!

Thanks for getting back to me Davide, and for your support. I'll just hang on and hope for the best.

Thanks again,

Ian

Tuesday, 10 January 2017 04:51 CST

tampe125

You're welcome!
Let me know if you need further help!

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Thursday, 09 February 2017 17:17 CST

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