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Old 01-02-2008, 06:32 PM  
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Educate me...how does ONE IP attempting to log in and failing bring servers down 10 to 15 times a day. I honestly don't know how that would work.
well first you would have to learn to read properly.

they didnt block the user until AFTER they had the performance issues

""The servers were going down like 10-15 times a day," he said. "Our hosting company stabilized them and secured them by blocking IP addresses"

once the user was blocked the server stabilized.

the user did not "fail" to get in , they got in and were dumping databases causing the server to stall, they got busted got blocked , the server returned to normal other than failed requests , nats was notified .
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