Acelgoyobis Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 ...A whole bunch of people decided to constantly refresh the pages of a forum? I don't mean fresh every 10 minutes, I mean refresh every 5 seconds or so. Here's a scenario: 50 Tip.It forumers were tracking a certain thread, and instead of letting the system notifying them through PM or E-Mail, they decided to employ a program that refreshes the site every 3 seconds looking for a new post. How will this affect the Tip.It servers? And approximately how much more does Tip.It need to pay for those bandwidth leeched? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Refreshing that often will more than likely end up getting at least a temporary IP ban set on the offending IP by the web server. There is absolutely NO reason to be requesting pages that fast from the server. How it effects the server depends on the hardware it is running on. The costs of bandwidth also won't be revealed by the staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qw3rt Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Isnt that a DoS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClareJonsson Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Yes that is an attempt at Denial of Service, but doesn't the forum have flood prevention enabled? If it is enabled you would just get a flood prevention notice. [Assist-X] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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