My question is in the title. 8 different people who use the bot from america are banned for no reason. Care to shed some light on this?
its not just Americans, we're working on resolving the issue, its nothing personal against anyone, just a technical issue. please be patient.
I had a few DNS errors yesterday and today but im able to get on the forums now. Don't worry im not gonna nerdrage the internet is not perfect
actually I think he website was under attack the past few days. slowness issue, as long with user login attempted to brute force as it told me i tried a failed password 5times which i havent. theres possibly a hacker trying to bruteforce our forum accounts. fortunately the buddy key auth wasnt affected so our bot could login easily.
Honorbuddy's forum was under a DDoS attack for several days and in order to relieve stress on the website some measures were taken. To try and purge out the incoming connections that were malicious, Apoc implemented a script to ban an IP range or an IP if it tried too fast too many times to connect to honorbuddy's forum. People may of accidently gotten a ban if they refreshed the page too many times in an X amount of time or clicked " Post quick Reply " too quick.
Honorbuddy's forum was under a DDoS attack for several days and in order to relieve stress on the website some measures were taken. To try and purge out the incoming connections that were malicious, Apoc implemented a script to ban an IP range or an IP if it tried too fast too many times to connect to honorbuddy's forum. People may of accidently gotten a ban if they refreshed the page too many times in an X amount of time or clicked " Post quick Reply " too quick.
its alright, we should be good fro here on out, if your still having issues, clear your web browsers cache and give it another shot.
Annonce Maybe a Forum announcement is needed? I had to search this thread to find out what was going on. I pretty much thought that was what happening but i think it would reassure people if you told them it has been dealt with. Otherwise good job on stopping the attack
hawker made a post about what was going on. http://www.thebuddyforum.com/buddy-bots/announcements/101739-recent-forum-outages.html
