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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Your only options at this point is strict cloudflare rules or Anubis... and that's ignoring any xenforo guest-access restrictions.
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Just to add the way the bots are doing this - only 2 to 5 requests from an IP and never repeating the IP, means rate limiting rules...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    The last 9 days
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I put that to Claude: The distribution of requests-per-IP within just this one UA (Mac/Chrome148) is very telling: 86% of all 129,786...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Claude "Why this is such a resilient, hard-to-block operation — you cannot country-block or ASN-block your way out of 100+ countries'...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I updated the post a bit more above ...... haven't finished reading the rest of the analysis yet :-)
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    Alvin63 reacted to badabugs1's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Wow. :ROFLMAO: That is on a completely different scale to what I found on my forum. The really interesting part to me isn't even the...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Claude is getting quite excited :ROFLMAO: "The top six user-agents alone account for roughly 8.5 million of your 9.5 million total...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Edit - sorted - I had to upload the zipped file - the unzipped one was too big to upload. It covers the last 9 days.
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Main issue is I'm trying to work out how to upgload a .gz file to Claude! Last time I could only paste a chunk of entries.
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    Alvin63 reacted to badabugs1's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Yes, that's exactly why I think analysing the complete .gz log could be useful. In my case, looking at the ASN initially pointed...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thanks, yes I can download a 24 hour log - I'll try running it through Claude first :-) It kind of had been narrowed down to one or two...
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    Alvin63 reacted to badabugs1's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    I think at this point it would be really important to analyse your raw server access logs before adding too many more rules. With 1,500...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    What that does is put a cloudflare secret header word onto every IP that hits the server via Cloudflare. As such it doesn't inject the...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread XF 2.2 Too many Guests.
    If blocking Singapore you need to add this "and not cf.client.bot" at the end - see below - after the country name. This screenshot is...
    • Not cf client bot.webp
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