This evening the forums (both the FCF and BXC) started playing up by giving lots of instances of popping up a login box and other errors.
I found the problem, after rebooting the webservers to no avail, to be a "rougue" IP address originating from the 3 network creating hundreds of "guest" sessions into the FCF and bringing it to its knees, along with the BXC. I had to ban the "rogue" IP address to regain order and normal service.
I shall monitor carefully and if it continues, I may have to ban all access to the forums from the 3 network and this may have an impact on those who use the 3 network mobile internet.
Does anyone on here regularly make use of 3 mobile internet?
Problems With The 3 (Three) Network
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- Sir Jim of the Databases
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Problems With The 3 (Three) Network
Jim
'98 Xantia 1.9TD in Red - Gabriel the Bus...
'96 Xantia Activa in Red - My favourite toy...
'07 Pug 207 in Blue - The Deathtrap...
'15 Giant Defy Bike in Blue - Daily rider...
'16 Giant TCR Bike in Black/Lime Green - Fine weather only...
'98 Xantia 1.9TD in Red - Gabriel the Bus...
'96 Xantia Activa in Red - My favourite toy...
'07 Pug 207 in Blue - The Deathtrap...
'15 Giant Defy Bike in Blue - Daily rider...
'16 Giant TCR Bike in Black/Lime Green - Fine weather only...
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- Sir Jim of the Databases
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Are you on dialup then jeremy?jeremy wrote:Nothing to do with 3G - my dialup was just the same.
No, what happened was a user of the "3" 3G network managed to create multiple (hundreds) of guest (i.e. not a registered user) sessions into the FCF and crashed it, almost, along with this forum as they share webservers and databases.
It's something that I've seen before with 3 as I have a 3 mobile internet modem and I've accidentially done the same. It is a problem with the 3 mobile internet system it seems.
Quite what 3's problem is I don't yet know. I'll try and get hold of their technical support in the morning and have a natter with them.
As I say, if it reoccurs. I'll have to consider banning all access to the BXC and FCF from 3 mobile internet.
Jim
'98 Xantia 1.9TD in Red - Gabriel the Bus...
'96 Xantia Activa in Red - My favourite toy...
'07 Pug 207 in Blue - The Deathtrap...
'15 Giant Defy Bike in Blue - Daily rider...
'16 Giant TCR Bike in Black/Lime Green - Fine weather only...
'98 Xantia 1.9TD in Red - Gabriel the Bus...
'96 Xantia Activa in Red - My favourite toy...
'07 Pug 207 in Blue - The Deathtrap...
'15 Giant Defy Bike in Blue - Daily rider...
'16 Giant TCR Bike in Black/Lime Green - Fine weather only...
I have a 3 mobile broadband dongle which I use on my laptop occasionally. However in the past when trying to log on here I received a message that I was banned and to contact admin to resolve the problem! This was quite a few months ago so I don't even attempt to log in here with it now.
Dave.
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2004 C5 Exclusive Estate 2.2hdi automatic.
1990 Bx TGS automatic.