My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
Couldn't get into the site last night around 2300 CDT. Gateway timeout trying to get in thru the front door or directly to a PM.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
I just checked and of the 386 guests, IP addresses starting with 146 and 202 seem to be almost all of the traffic, both from Singapore.
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
Do that many people in Singapore own vintage GMC/Chevy trucks? And currently 710 guests??
Craig
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
Craig - IMHO, the quick and dirty answer is NO! From what I've found for that ASN in just the last 7 days it's being reported as 87.3% Bot activity. The ASN is a Chinese owned Data Center/Service Provider and is primarily based in Singapore, but also Hong Kong, Thailand, Turkey and Mexico, all using those IP group numbers noted by Phil.
They've been an active and many times excessively large portion of our "Guest" list for a long time. BOOO!!!
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Seems to me that China is finding other ways to infiltrate our community. As Paul closes down one avenue, they open up another.
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
If they did, no wonder they're upset at stovebolters!
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
Couldn't get into the site last night around 2300 CDT. Gateway timeout trying to get in thru the front door or directly to a PM.
I came on about a half hour before you did. It worked fine for the first 15 or 20 minutes, then froze up entirely like you said. I think it timed out 2 or 3 times before I finally got logged back out.
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
Been logged in for about an hour just cruising along and got the fatal error. Slow to log back in and IP Adresses 146 and 202 are back, log jamming the system.
Last edited by Phak1; 08/08/20251:04 PM.
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
I just posted and got that fatal error again. The 146/202 IP addresses are dominating the site again. I wonder if its related?
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
Almost 20 seconds to get to the site's front page at 12:50 CST Sunday 10/5. There are 1174 anonymous guests right now. I don't know how to display their IP addresses.
Other web sites are loading at normal speeds.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
Been pretty slow until just now. Hundreds of guests, and when I checked random IP addresses of guests, I get place like Singapore, Vietnam, Brazil, Netherlands, etc. None of the ones I checked were from the US, although a couple were from Canada.
Bill, if you want to check IP addresses click who's online on the left, then the IP addresses on the list that pops up. Pics show how.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
When I do that Kevin, all 508 current (21:05 CST 10/8/2025) guests are "Anonymous". Maybe your moderator status makes the IP address show???
Last edited by Bill Hanlon; 10/09/20252:06 AM.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
Yep, I guess only moderators can see IP addresses. Sorry for the misguided instructions.
We'll watch out for bad actors for you.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
This weekend has been a continued slow down with some delays, some longer than others.
The Who's On Line "Guest" count has been steadily climbing most of the weekend, now currently exceeding 1900 and sometimes 2000 guests. A random check through IP addresses, I sampled about 50 different IPs, shows about 80% of those guests are supposedly located in South America. Brazil and Argentina are the most prominent of the South American locations, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the various IP's. These represent multiple ISPs (service providers) and don't appear to be "bots", but I can't recall when we have had this much activity from the southern hemsphere part of the world.
There are also repeat guest blocks of IP's from Vietnam (200+ beginning with 14, 100 + beginning with 113, 70 + beginning with 123), and many random IP's from Singapore.
Just info for thought should there be something to help identify what's going on and perhaps a means to counter the overwhelming activity.
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Slower than my old pickup right now, with 2,711 guests.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
Once again super slow this morning (accessing via phone). I had 2 different server time out instances while just trying to sign in.
Below is a current screenshot shows active high guest count now of over 1800.
Some time yesterday we hit a new high guest count of 3,622 guests on line???
Not sure this is a good thing as the validity of the visitors being actual guests IMHO is questionable.
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Over 2,100 this morning just after signing on. Posting took over thirty seconds.
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
1800+ guests right now, but not having a slowness issue.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
1500+ here now and ours is actually faster than most mornings.
Bother ....
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804 "Charlie" - The Stovebolt Flagship In the Gallery "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
Right now over 2000 guests (Maybe we should call them intruders instead) and it took well over a minute to get here. [on edit] another minute+ to get the fatal error message, another minute+ to go to active threads to display the post, another minute+ to open the post, another minute+ to open the post for editing. I also noticed that the sidebar with the picture of me under my truck pops up about 30 seconds after I start to edit. Site is nearly unusable. Probably why there's not many new posts since I last logged in.
Every other site I visit comes up in under 5 seconds. :-(
GRRRRR!!!!
Only 6 members online now and a random sampling of the intruders shows Brazil, Vietnam, Tunisia, Pakistan, etc. Sure wish there was a way to disallow any "guests". It might make it harder for legitimate folks trying to join, but if the site's so slow they probably won't stay around anyway.
Last edited by klhansen; 10/16/20251:06 AM.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
And we're back!! Thanks Paul for whatever you did (or didn't do).
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
It took forever to get on last night. Once I did, I couldn’t do anything. Very, very frustrating. Almost 2,300 guests!
Another fatal error posting this!
Last edited by Phak1; 10/16/20251:11 PM. Reason: Added info
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
I'll offer a BIG 2nd to say "Thanks" to Paul for getting things back accessible and functioning again. Your efforts don't go unnoticed!!!
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Thanks again Paul. That second round of blocks apparently did the trick. Guest count currently under 300.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
Another night that I couldn’t get on line. Tried for thirty minutes around 8:30 pm and just kept getting a time out. This issue makes it really hard to moderate.
On another note, if it’s frustrating to us, it must be driving Paul crazy. Thanks Paul, for all your hard work. We all appreciate it.
Phil Moderator, The Engine Shop, Interiors and Project Journals
1952 Chevrolet 3100, Three on the Tree, 4:11 torque tube Updated to: ‘59 235 w/hydraulic lifters, 12v w/alternator, HEI, PCV and Power front Disc Brakes Project Journals Stovebolt Gallery Forum
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
Another night that I couldn’t get on line. Tried for thirty minutes around 8:30 pm and just kept getting a time out. This issue makes it really hard to moderate.
On another note, if it’s frustrating to us, it must be driving Paul crazy. Thanks Paul, for all your hard work. We all appreciate it.
You don't know the half of it. On top of dealing with this, I had to deal with a hosting company that was telling me this was all caused by the forum software. No explanation for why it's been working all along until just now.
If you want the gory technical details, I'll write a thread about it, but it will probably go over most heads and bore many others. Suffice it to say, the number of networks we're blocking at the firewall is larger now.
am no computer whiz (ie:Luddite), but a question: do these attacks routed thru users computers or are they direct (whatever that means). I ask because often when I hit my link it opens as already signed in, and should it help if i/we all make a point to sign out..
I just got about 3 gateway timeouts before getting in. And guest count is above 2000 again. GRRR.
Lots of guests from Brazil, a few from Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, Equador, etc.
Last edited by klhansen; 10/18/20256:05 AM. Reason: added guest locations
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
I was able to get signed in with only a little (10-15 second) lag time this morning, but once in hasn't been doing that long on delay. Current Guests On Line number in the mid 1300's and yeah, LOTS of them from Brazil with a wide range of different IPs and service providers. Also a scattering of other South American countries, but I also saw IPs indicating from Russia, Ukraine, China, Pakistan and lots of other countries too. Crazy amount of activity and interest that doesn't feel normal.
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
We are currently getting inundated (hammered) with a huge amount of "Guests" from Huawei International Pte. (a Chinese company) out of Singapore. This is clearly identified as a "Data Center". Total guest count is over 1900 at the moment with the following 2 groups being huge:
IP's beginning with 146.176.X - Huawei International Pte. ASN: 136907 out of Singapore: Screenshot of guest count with matching IP group = 998 guests (1st pic below)
IP's beginning with 202.76.X - Huawei International Pte. ASN: 136907 out of Singapore: Screenshot of guest count with matching IP group = 619 guests (2nd pic)
Total "Guests" from this ASN = 1617
I have noticed a moderate slow down since these Guests have arrived.
Can/should these be blocked???
Quick edit: the IP group 146.176.X is now showing over 1000 Guests coming from this source! GRRRRRRR!!!!!
Last edited by Gdads51; 11/01/20259:53 PM. Reason: add quick edit
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Thank You Paul as always!!! So much faster and more enjoyable getting on line this morning.
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
And currently 710 guests??
Your efforts don't go unnoticed!!! ![[notworthy]](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/not-worthy.gif "[notworthy]"){kind=small}
