XF 2.3 60,000 requests a day on new forum

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josh_b_and_b

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I setup a new forum, and getting over 60,000 requests per day. The first day was 300,000 requests.

They're all going to this path:
/misc/style-variation

Anyone ever seen spam like this before with XenForo?


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josh_b_and_b said:
Dang. Do you think it's Amazon bot or someone mining with AWS servers?

The user agents were like Google Chrome.
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Any user agent can be sent in a header but; https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

Code: 
Mozilla<span>/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML\, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonbot/0.1; +https:/</span>/developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)

No chrome ....?

it also has robot.txt controls there.

Code: 
User-agent: Amazonbot             # Amazon's user agent
Disallow: /do-not-crawl/          # disallow this directory

User-agent: *                     # any robot
Disallow: /not-allowed/           # disallow this directory
 
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josh_b_and_b said:
Nope, Googlebot uses a specific user agent. Did you see the user agent above?
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Yes, bogus header. I'm saying your site has likely been found VIA Google from it being indexed via their bot and thereafter what transpires could be from this. I hope I've explained this better. Easiest way, given how new it is, would be to use the site:domain query.
 
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MentaL said:
Yes, bogus header. I'm saying your site has likely been found VIA Google from it being indexed via their bot and thereafter what transpires could be from this. I hope I've explained this better. Easiest way, given how new it is, would be to use the site:domain query.
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I have never in my 15 years as a webmaster seen Google use bogus user-agents. Do you have any proof of this? I'm interested in learning more.
 
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josh_b_and_b said:
I have never in my 15 years as a webmaster seen Google use bogus user-agents. Do you have any proof of this? I'm interested in learning more.
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I'm not saying Google are using bogus headers, I am saying that Google may have cached the site and then the bot/crawler that is hounding his site (which is not google, but a rouge bot/crawler/user) with queries is using a fake header by initially finding the site VIA Google, this is why I asked if his NEW site was indexed, to rule this out as a THEORY. Per user agent; "67.0.2768.182" This does not exist or at least I cannot find anything relating to it.

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Here's a user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.2768.182 Safari/537.36

Another:

1727906782026.webp

1727891796973-webp.311882


We can also note the use of amazon AWS which anyone can use for malicious activities.
 
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