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Some bugger is using a botnet to try and attack our little farm.
37 IP addresses have been blocked in the last 24 hours as a result of port scans, Denial of Service attacks.
Weird stuff.
Blocking the port scans is easy stuff, but the denial of service attacks might slow down the forum today. So if you're seeing the forum become slow it's because of this.
If anyone knows how to make an adjustment to nginx to have it discard malformed requests I'd be interested in hearing more. Effectively I'm looking for mod_security type functionality for nginx.