XenForo verifying if you are human message

[rogerl]

It happens frequently while using my iPad. No matter if I’m using t-mobile home internet at home, Xfinity at the office or Verizon cell service elsewhere.

Are you using Apple's Private Relay on your iPad?

 

[wedgar]

Are you using Apple's Private Relay on your iPad?

No, I haven’t been using it.

 

[Hardcore]

The site has been under a sustained DDoS attack which is why the strict controls are in place.

Thanks for the explanation. I was getting it with or without iCloud Private Relay on desktop and mobile.

 

[Suzanne O]

Are you using Apple's Private Relay on your iPad?

It's got nothing to do with what he is using.
There are losers out there trying to attack the site.

 

[Opus X]

It's got nothing to do with what he is using.
There are losers out there trying to attack the site.

no trying to do it.
they are.
otherwise we should not be having the check going on.
it is a pain as i have to go through 20-40 of those verifying human things and maybe it will work.
then i end up just do a new TOR identity and it seems to work better.
the crazy thing is i have one tab open right now that keeps doing the verifying human stuff.
but i am in another tab live typing this message.

 

[Suzanne O]

Got it again this morning. Along with a cloudflare message telling us that xenforo was getting bad gateway errors.

 

[Paul B]

There was a DDoS.

 

[Suzanne O]

There was a DDoS.

Ah ok. Hopefully that's died down now.

 

[mjda]

There was a DDoS.

Just out of curiosity, when this happens does cloudflare automatically step in to mitigate this or is there a switch y'all are flipping?

 

[Chromaniac]

on free accounts, it is usually done manually by turning on a setting. it has helped me several times in the past. though i have seen ddos attacks in recent days which were apparently mitigated by cloudflare automatically and they send me a mail with details on what rules they applied. but they do not seem to offer any feature on free account where i'm under attack can be configured to automatically enable when the site is under distress due to an attack or something. though i suppose it should be possible using their api?

 

[Paul B]

As above, we activate it manually using one of the rules we have set up.

 

[Suzanne O]

Just saw a cloudflare error.