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Country/IP blocking on TWTD 10:42 - Mar 27 with 4482 viewsGavTWTD

Our sister site FansNetwork has been hit by a large number of bots from abroad. At the moment it's specifically China, Singapore, Russia and Vietnam. All using tens of thousands of different IP addresses generating hundreds of thousands of page views. On TWTD we've always blocked Russia but it make sense to block the others too. India and Pakistan are likely to be included too, maybe Brazil. Just checked Vietnam have used over 200,000 IP addresses in the last 24hrs.

If you're affected by this then we can override this for specific IP addresses but won't be able to if you're IP is dynamic. We'll start to do this next week. Get in touch please if this affects you or are in any of the countries listed.

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:47 - Mar 27 with 3866 viewsGuthrum

Bump, but also a suggestion to pin this Gav.

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:47 - Mar 27 with 3876 viewsTheMoralMajority

I'm sure you are aware, but just in case. I also run a website and get regularly bot-attacked. Unfortunately it turns into whack-a-mole as you block one territory, then a few days later they just spin up servers in a different territory.

CloudFlare has a free-tier and allows you to enable "under-attack" mode. It is not ideal, as it puts a capture challenge (not one of the puzzle solving ones, just a 'please wait...' then click the box one), and I think it messes with SEO, but I have found that enabling it and disabling it when I am/am not under attack has been a far less frustrating experience than whacking moles, and has kept my SEO fairly solid.

They also let you set rules for specific territories to show the challenge to, if you don't want to blanket challenge the whole site, but I've just found the "attack mode" switch a lot less labour intensive.
[Post edited 27 Mar 10:49]

Ashton out

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:47 - Mar 27 with 3860 viewsSamWhiteUK

Get 'em, Gav
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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:49 - Mar 27 with 3817 viewsArnoldMoorhen

Sounds like an absolute effing nightmare for you.

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:51 - Mar 27 with 3764 viewsGlasgowBlue

"we've always blocked Russia". I wondered why we haven't seen CIL for a while

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:52 - Mar 27 with 3764 viewsGavTWTD

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:47 - Mar 27 by Guthrum

Bump, but also a suggestion to pin this Gav.


Thanks for the bump, but was only 5 mins. The forum isn't that busy

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:58 - Mar 27 with 3722 viewsGavTWTD

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:47 - Mar 27 by TheMoralMajority

I'm sure you are aware, but just in case. I also run a website and get regularly bot-attacked. Unfortunately it turns into whack-a-mole as you block one territory, then a few days later they just spin up servers in a different territory.

CloudFlare has a free-tier and allows you to enable "under-attack" mode. It is not ideal, as it puts a capture challenge (not one of the puzzle solving ones, just a 'please wait...' then click the box one), and I think it messes with SEO, but I have found that enabling it and disabling it when I am/am not under attack has been a far less frustrating experience than whacking moles, and has kept my SEO fairly solid.

They also let you set rules for specific territories to show the challenge to, if you don't want to blanket challenge the whole site, but I've just found the "attack mode" switch a lot less labour intensive.
[Post edited 27 Mar 10:49]


I should ban all foreigners really... ... ...

Thanks. I'd rather not go that far but I have been surprised by the spread of IPs over territories. Another 1000 Vietnamese IPs since I wrote the OP. This is a first step though and I'll see how it develops.

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:22 - Mar 27 with 3600 viewsSitfcB

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:52 - Mar 27 by GavTWTD

Thanks for the bump, but was only 5 mins. The forum isn't that busy


Busy week, Gav? What’s the stats?

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:25 - Mar 27 with 3561 viewsbartyg

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:58 - Mar 27 by GavTWTD

I should ban all foreigners really... ... ...

Thanks. I'd rather not go that far but I have been surprised by the spread of IPs over territories. Another 1000 Vietnamese IPs since I wrote the OP. This is a first step though and I'll see how it develops.


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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:25 - Mar 27 with 3557 viewsNedPlimpton

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:58 - Mar 27 by GavTWTD

I should ban all foreigners really... ... ...

Thanks. I'd rather not go that far but I have been surprised by the spread of IPs over territories. Another 1000 Vietnamese IPs since I wrote the OP. This is a first step though and I'll see how it develops.


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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:29 - Mar 27 with 3513 viewsArnoldMoorhen

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:58 - Mar 27 by GavTWTD

I should ban all foreigners really... ... ...

Thanks. I'd rather not go that far but I have been surprised by the spread of IPs over territories. Another 1000 Vietnamese IPs since I wrote the OP. This is a first step though and I'll see how it develops.


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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:35 - Mar 27 with 3475 viewsvapour_trail

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:25 - Mar 27 by NedPlimpton

God, has Farage been invited for lunch at TWTD Towers too now?


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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 11:38 - Mar 27 with 3440 viewsElderGrizzly

Blocking Russia. You're so anti-Farage...
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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 12:10 - Mar 27 with 3303 viewsSitfcB

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:58 - Mar 27 by GavTWTD

I should ban all foreigners really... ... ...

Thanks. I'd rather not go that far but I have been surprised by the spread of IPs over territories. Another 1000 Vietnamese IPs since I wrote the OP. This is a first step though and I'll see how it develops.



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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 12:14 - Mar 27 with 3264 viewshoppy

How broad is the problem, is it onlyFansNetwork?

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 12:30 - Mar 27 with 3185 viewsCamul123

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 12:14 - Mar 27 by hoppy

How broad is the problem, is it onlyFansNetwork?


Do I have to pay to see what you did there?
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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 13:15 - Mar 27 with 3076 viewsBent_double

Does this apply to VPN connections? I'm usually "in Brazil", should I just make sure this site bypasses the VPN?

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 14:04 - Mar 27 with 2970 viewsVic

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 12:10 - Mar 27 by SitfcB



Sorry Sitters, but I really don;t want to see his face on here!

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 16:12 - Mar 27 with 2760 viewsPendejo

Just testing - Colombia is fine

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 21:37 - Mar 27 with 2401 viewsCafe_Newman

I'm in France now, having previously posted successfully from Russia under a different username. Am I going to be blocked?

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 06:43 - Mar 28 with 2190 viewstcblue

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:47 - Mar 27 by TheMoralMajority

I'm sure you are aware, but just in case. I also run a website and get regularly bot-attacked. Unfortunately it turns into whack-a-mole as you block one territory, then a few days later they just spin up servers in a different territory.

CloudFlare has a free-tier and allows you to enable "under-attack" mode. It is not ideal, as it puts a capture challenge (not one of the puzzle solving ones, just a 'please wait...' then click the box one), and I think it messes with SEO, but I have found that enabling it and disabling it when I am/am not under attack has been a far less frustrating experience than whacking moles, and has kept my SEO fairly solid.

They also let you set rules for specific territories to show the challenge to, if you don't want to blanket challenge the whole site, but I've just found the "attack mode" switch a lot less labour intensive.
[Post edited 27 Mar 10:49]


You've slightly conflated two different things Cloudflare does there but the point remains, using a smart WAF is much more efficient than geoblocking IPs, which will only block bot and other bad actors who can't afford a VPN
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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:02 - Mar 28 with 2109 viewsGavTWTD

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 21:37 - Mar 27 by Cafe_Newman

I'm in France now, having previously posted successfully from Russia under a different username. Am I going to be blocked?


I very much doubt we'll block french traffic

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:04 - Mar 28 with 2107 viewsGavTWTD

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 13:15 - Mar 27 by Bent_double

Does this apply to VPN connections? I'm usually "in Brazil", should I just make sure this site bypasses the VPN?


Brazil might be blocked yes. We can unblock a single IP but if you get around it another way that would0 be good.

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 10:55 - Mar 29 with 1675 viewsmo_itfc

Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 06:43 - Mar 28 by tcblue

You've slightly conflated two different things Cloudflare does there but the point remains, using a smart WAF is much more efficient than geoblocking IPs, which will only block bot and other bad actors who can't afford a VPN


Definitely look into smart WAF.

Cloudflare is a must to block this kind of traffic.

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Country/IP blocking on TWTD on 16:17 - Mar 31 with 1074 viewsCrayonKing

This isn't directly related but it seems like a suitable place to ask. Have you seen a significant increase in bots since Ashton-gate? It's obvious there's bot-swarms that follow anything Farage touches on X. Just wondering whether this place was catching some overspill?
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