On 25 August 2013 17:56, Martijn Grooten <bitfolk@lapsedordinary.net> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Michael Corliss wrote:

I've found some suggestions that this UA is associated with malicious bots; is this a DDOS?  Who would want to DDOS a piddly discussion forum?

It could be a brute-force attack on the CMS, distributed through a botnet.

Any advice on making it useable again?

Blocking the user agent might work in this case - though if it's really a brute-force attack, the attackers could switch to a different user agent, or vary the user agent.

You can also consider putting the side behind a CDN like CloudFlare.

Martijn.
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