flagfox.net down [FIXED]

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Infinity
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flagfox.net down [FIXED]

Post by Infinity » Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:24 pm

Hi there,

Just to notify Dave that flagfox.net is suspended from hostmonster.

I use the geotool, quite a bit, so i would be happy if its back up!

Bye!

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DaveG
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Re: flagfox.net

Post by DaveG » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:20 am

Yep. There has been a large flood of abuse of Geotool coming out of Russia. Every once in a while some idiot sets up some automated junk to abuse Geotool instead of doing their own geolocation correctly, and this time it overloaded the serve center. Richard blocked a previous abuse but it seems to have resumed massively recently to the point where HostMonster had to pull the plug. Will hopefully be able to get things back up and running as soon as possible. Richard will be able to say more when he gets more info.

As per usual, the old server at http://geotool.servehttp.com/ is still up for those who desperately need it, but that's this server which can't handle all too much load.

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Re: flagfox.net

Post by rleeden » Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:02 am

I have now spoken to somebody at HostMonster and it does seem to be due to the abuse from Russia. Even though I am successfully blocking these requests, the huge amount of network traffic is still supposedly violating the ToS I have with HostMonster. Before they pulled the plug geotool was getting approaching 2 million hits a day from Russia, compared to approximately 120,000 valid requests.

So currently looking at alternatives but the website will probably be unavailable for a while. As Dave has said, in the meantime http://geotool.servehttp.com/ is available for us, but that lives on a fairly old low powered server that sits in my loft, so if that starts getting too many hits it will blow up fairly quickly.

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Re: flagfox.net

Post by Infinity » Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:35 pm

Thanks, i personally like the geotool.servehttp.com (from what i can see is hosted by yourselves), its using the same ISP as me, its fairly close to london (where i live), what more can i ask thanks!

If you want to i can give you a small php script to put on your loft server that redirects the traffic to a server i have (a powerful one in my bedroom), that script will redirect traffic to my site only if my site is online (i turn it off at night, it heats my room up to melting point and the annoying noise and lights, thats what a flat feels like [with no loft]).

As i said before its a pretty powerful Core2Quad, 64bit, Debian, 3048MB ram pc.

Just pm me, and ill contact you back with an ftp account, and the 15line non-fail script. The server is in London, UK - geolocate it if you want (http://geotool.servehttp.com/?ip=82.12. ... vehttp.com), the geolocation is kinda wrong - the server is in Ilford, Greater London, UK.

Incase you want to know my server is ready and set up for your geotool mirror thing.

Humza

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Re: flagfox.net

Post by DaveG » Mon Nov 08, 2010 5:04 am

Flagfox 4.0.11 has been pushed to AMO with the Geotool domain switched over to the new geo.flagfox.net and a cookie based system to identify Flagfox's version to Geotool in an attempt to tell real Flagfox usage apart from garbage easier. Once the new version is public users will be able to update and things should work again.

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Re: flagfox.net

Post by Infinity » Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:40 pm

Ok, thanks

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