Come under an attack so I used flood control

Client Joined: Dec 04, 2004 Posts: 757

Hello all, after my upgrade most went ok and all the images on my site have been there ever since I upgraded.
I got up today to find a lot of images missing all over my site

I hadnt made any changes yesterday at all but to today images missing
The strange thing is if I right click and get properties and trace the images the route is correct and the image is in the right folder on ftp?
Also I noticed if I put the image address in the brouser it directs me to my home page and doesnt show the image?
I am now getting emails from members expalining if they get a post they are re-directed to the front page which I have tried and is true that happens.
any idea`s all?
Cheers
mrix

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:22 am

I think I was coming under some kind of attack as when I went in the reverals in admin I found I was getting urls by the hundreds and as fast as I deleted them the they would appear Confused

I looked around in sentinal for something that could help me and I noticed flood protection so I clicked that on and it all stopped and the site was back to normal.
was this the right thing to do ? was I most probably being attacked some how?
Cheers
mrix

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Sounds like a denial of service attack. Your server couldn't respond fast enough to display images before the browser got tired of waiting and timed out. You might ask your host for assistance on this since it could be affecting more than just your site.

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