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      Ed
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        I think the server is holding up fairly well, but it’s been dealing with a brute force attack for the past 4-5 hours. It’s been blocking IP addresses at the rate of 2 every 3 minutes for most of that time. Don’t worry, the attack is going after an account that doesn’t even exist so it’s not going to get anywhere but the server is dealing with a huge increase in login attempts right now.

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        ptHarry
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          Ed: “the attack is going after an account that doesn’t even exist”

          Does it have its own unique domain name?

          If it does, you could remove it from DNS, which once the cache expires should stop them reaching the server at all (unless they’re using the IP address, rather than going via the domain name).

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            Ed
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              The security system automatically blocks suspicious site accesses, too many failed login attempts in too fast a time, too many failed logins over a longer time, etc. etc. Currently it’s disconnecting. I haven’t seen a single domain name, just random IP addresses.

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