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@Sanguine Looks like your service is having some technical issues at the moment. FreeFlarum website doesn't load and my forum as well.

    Sanguine Weird, everything was fine an hour ago. Should I still send you my IP?

    PS: Nevermind. It's working now after I cleared my browser cache and cookies. Thx!

      It appears that freeflarum.com is down.
      Does anyone know what's going on?

      FreeFlarum appears to be online for me, maybe it's a specific issue with your specific instance? FreeFlarum is run by a community member so I can't give any specific support but I just wanted to note that it could be specific to your instance.

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        It's not down. I use a forum hosted there and that's working fine 😁.

        Merged 4 posts from Freeflarum down?.

        [deleted] Ok, thank you. Then I think it's my internet connection. I've been having problems with a few other websites and it turned out it was my internet provider. It's probably the same problem. Thanks for checking!

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            @Sanguine is there any geo blocking in place on freeflarum ? If you see the previous post, we have a user who's having issues accessing his forum, and it may be that the IP address he's using is perhaps blacklisted ? Everything works fine for me.

            Thanks

              I had my 2 IPs blocked. I get a new IP every time I restart the connection. Looks like some of the IP range that belong to my ISP is blacklisted by the list FreeFlarum is using. As far as I can tell, it is an IP related issue, if not a Geo one.

                meetdilip [deleted] PaolaDziwetzki

                Yesterday FreeFlarum suffered another DDoS attack. Over 2 milion requests within a few minutes from 5K+ IPs. I implemented an emergency filter that would blacklist aggressive sources, but it may have been too strict and ended up blocking regular visitors.

                My apologies for that. All blocks have been lifted. Also, I have adjusted the DDoS filters so next time they will be more accurate.

                PS I am absolutely baffled as to why someone would want to damage FreeFlarum. Probably a bored teenager ☹️

                        Sanguine PS I am absolutely baffled as to why someone would want to damage FreeFlarum. Probably a bored teenager

                        Also a drawback of running so many forums from one ip 😇

                            luceos What do you mean? It would be unfeasible to offer free forums with their own IP...

                                Sanguine

                                It is possible that of those many admins, someone has serious enemies. It could be that one person who is causing all this. That is the best guess I could make about an otherwise useful service.

                                We are all with you. It is ok to have some downtime. We know you are giving your best. Don't lose heart.

                                    Sanguine I know. But as meetdilip points out. Only one forum needs an enemy to do a ddos on the forum ip for all forums to be impacted.

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                                          luceos true, but not necessarily the case. It's possible that the IP address itself is a target from a range or subnet, or has even been hit by mistake. Nonetheless, a DDoS of that magnitude can be bought in the dark web for less than your weekly coffee cost. Remember that a DDoS is virtually all cases it not from one lone IP. It's an army of unknowing and unwilling zombies that have been created by previous compromise and are under influence of a C&C (command and control).

                                          All the originators of the attack do is provide a list of targets, them flip a switch to start it. What's more likely is that the IP you are using has been previously attributed to an institution that had been a target before, and they've changed their IP range in order to curb the attacks. You've landed up with that IP and now are using the price.

                                          Check DNS blacklists first and see if you're IP is listed. Failing that, it's a dark web search to see how you've been targeted, or change your IP which is always going to be quicker and cleaner.

                                              [deleted] Well, it's definitely a L7 attack against a specific forum. I could kill the specific forum, but it does not seem malicious and I don't want to succumb to bored teenagers or otherwise low moral individuals.

                                              Edit: I have per-forum rate limiting (via Nginx) in place, but this particular attack was so voluminous that even Nginx choked on it.