Forum problems?

[johnsonx42]

I have put a not on the screen to let people 'guest access has been temporarily disabled due to hacking attempts'.

Yeah, I saw that when I tried logging-out last night just to see what would happen. You might want to add words like "We do welcome new users to the forum - if you are Human and interested in PVR software, please register" or something like that. It seems pretty unwelcoming right now.

[steeb]

It was 61 when I switched off for the day.

Well the difference between 236 and 61 is certainly more than the normal amount of guests hanging about...... I guess it is fine as long as they are only knocking at the door. Bummer if the forum has to stay registered users only though. Perhaps the bot pest/s (if that is what it is) will go away soon?

Out of interest after all that has been going on the RSS feed from Community Announcements appears to be throwing a wobbly to the feed on the new pages:

RSS Error: A feed could not be found at http://forums.gbpvr.com/external.php?typ...orumids=15

steeb

[sub]

Out of interest after all that has been going on the RSS feed from Community Announcements appears to be throwing a wobbly to the feed on the new pages:

RSS Error: A feed could not be found at http://forums.gbpvr.com/external.php?typ...orumids=15

steeb

I'm guessing disabling guess access knocks out the RSS feed.

[steeb]

I'm guessing disabling guess access knocks out the RSS feed.

Hmmm, I don't know anything about the RSS feeds and how they work.

This one still appears to be OK though:

http://forums.gbpvr.com/external.php?typ...orumids=10

and this one

http://forums.gbpvr.com/external.php?type=RSS2

used to point to general recent forum posts but now interestingly brings up the same feed as the first one :confused:

So 1 out of 3 appears to work fine. 1 out of 3 is sort of working but picking up the wrong content and 1 is not working at all.

So I guess this must be deeper than level of Guest access?

Another headache for you Sub (as if you hadn't already had enough?)

steeb

[sub]

To be honest, I dont know. I'm just going to have to ignore the RSS feeds not working correctly at the moment - there isnt enough hours in the day...

[steeb]

To be honest, I dont know. I'm just going to have to ignore the RSS feeds not working correctly at the moment - there isnt enough hours in the day...

Absolutely, after all that has been going on. As if you didn't have enough to do anyway

Maybe it is something that will just 'right' itself.....

cheers

steeb

[johnsonx42]

we seem to have many former guest-lurkers coming out of the shadows and registering, which is not such a bad thing... being registered encourages participation. I suppose the only real downside to the forums being closed to guests is that search engine bots can't crawl the forum.

[sub]

There seems to be a lot of bots trying to register as well. I think unsuccessfully, because I've searched for user's with some of these registration IP addresses, and there doesnt seem to be any.

Very small snippet from many log messages:

68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:13 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:15 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:17 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
46.185.36.104 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:18 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25981
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:18 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:20 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:22 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:22 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:24 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:26 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
46.185.36.104 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:26 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25981
204.124.182.206 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:31 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:32 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
46.185.36.104 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:33 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25981
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:36 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:38 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
46.185.36.104 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:38 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25981
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:40 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:42 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:42 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
46.185.36.104 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:44 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25981
68.5.1.152 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:44 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25969
64.120.135.35 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:45 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25994
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:47 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26114
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:28:52 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:02 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:13 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:24 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:35 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:35 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26106
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:45 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:29:55 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:06 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:14 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:23 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26107
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:27 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:39 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:50 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
88.110.107.116 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:51 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.1" 200 8499
204.124.182.206 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:30:58 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:31:00 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:31:15 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:31:26 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26114
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:31:28 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:31:40 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:31:51 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:04 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:15 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:25 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
88.110.107.116 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:39 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.1" 200 8389
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:38 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:39 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26118
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:50 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:32:51 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:01 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:08 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:11 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:20 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:21 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
86.169.39.139 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:31 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.1" 200 8487
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:32 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:34 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
204.124.182.206 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:37 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:42 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:45 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26122
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:52 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:33:53 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:03 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
88.110.107.116 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:05 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.1" 200 4332
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:07 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:14 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:19 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:26 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:31 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:37 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
62.220.34.52 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:45 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25998
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:47 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978
199.15.234.29 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:51 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 26108
109.230.246.66 - - [07/Feb/2011:16:34:57 -0500] "POST /register.php?do=addmember HTTP/1.0" 200 25978

[johnsonx42]

yep, 68.5.1.152 looks like a bot-infected PC on cox cable. The others are probably the same. http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/68.5.1.152

[Ludron]

and ISPs does nothing?