Someone playing around? Run BASIC server spammed!

[Carl Gundel - admin]

Hey guys,

This morning at 8:15 my time GMT -5 the server at www.runbasic.com started getting a request from IP 83.200.47.39 every second. This is an IP address in Europe (probably France) as near as I can tell.

It's still going on now 14 hours later. Has anyone here been experimenting with RB and Javascript perhaps, and opened a page that does a fetch from www.runbasic.com every second and then just left the page open by mistake?

Thanks,

-Carl

[zoomkat]

If you are running behind a router, you could block the IP address at the router. A little more experimental, you might could send back a partial reply that is not closed and cause the requesting application to sit until it finally times out waiting on the reply completion.

[Carl Gundel - admin]

zoomkat said:

If you are running behind a router, you could block the IP address at the router. A little more experimental, you might could send back a partial reply that is not closed and cause the requesting application to sit until it finally times out waiting on the reply completion.

Unfortunately my router won't let me do that. Time to look for a new router I guess.

-Carl