NumberFields Is Back

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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 4 Jan 25 Posts: 75 Credit: 404,436,299 RAC: 518,245	Message 4418 - Posted: 3 Oct 2026, 23:40:21 UTC - in response to Message 4417. Finally back again. Several hours of timed out uploads and downloads and unable to get the website to load. Found another bot named "Bytespider", which apparently comes from ByteDance, the maker of TikTok. It has now been added to the badbot list. We'll see if this helps things. Time to check for more. 20min after you posted, the website was unreachable, uploads and downloads taking multiple attempts to get through, and Scheduler requests timing out. Only just now the web site has been reachable. Grant Darwin NT, Australia. ID: 4418 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 4 Jan 25 Posts: 75 Credit: 404,436,299 RAC: 518,245	Message 4444 - Posted: 10 Oct 2026, 0:10:08 UTC Ah, we're back. The last couple of hours- web site unreachable, uploads & downloads timing out, Scheduler requests hit and miss (mostly miss). Grant Darwin NT, Australia. ID: 4444 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Eric Driver Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 8 Jul 11 Posts: 1503 Credit: 1,370,701,289 RAC: 825,339	Message 4447 - Posted: 10 Oct 2026, 3:38:35 UTC - in response to Message 4444. Ah, we're back. The last couple of hours- web site unreachable, uploads & downloads timing out, Scheduler requests hit and miss (mostly miss). I noticed that myself. Fortunately, I was able to ssh in remotely and take a look. No obvious bots this time. There were a ton of hits to the file_upload_handler in the access logs, all from different IP addresses and different platforms. Almost like a DDoS attack. ID: 4447 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 4 Jan 25 Posts: 75 Credit: 404,436,299 RAC: 518,245	Message 4452 - Posted: 10 Oct 2026, 23:43:12 UTC Around 4 hours that time, and much worse than previously- One system started running out of work as it couldn't return the results. Often it couldn't contact the Scheduler- and if it did it then couldn't download new Tasks. Grant Darwin NT, Australia. ID: 4452 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Alperen Yavuz Send message Joined: 24 Jul 25 Posts: 9 Credit: 2,814,776 RAC: 828	Message 4453 - Posted: 11 Oct 2026, 0:45:30 UTC Enable IPv6 address support. If possible, tunnel the domain name using Cloudflare. ID: 4453 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Eric Driver Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 8 Jul 11 Posts: 1503 Credit: 1,370,701,289 RAC: 825,339	Message 4456 - Posted: 11 Oct 2026, 15:08:16 UTC - in response to Message 4453. Enable IPv6 address support. If possible, tunnel the domain name using Cloudflare. I am not an expert at this networking admin stuff, so I asked Gemini regarding your suggestion: • IPv6 Support: Potentially helpful. Many universities have massive, highly optimized IPv6 academic networks. If your server only uses IPv4, it might be hitting throttling limits or NAT (Network Address Translation) bottlenecks on the university firewall. Enabling IPv6 can allow clients to connect directly without passing through a heavy IPv4 NAT table. However, it will only help if your university network supports it and the remote users have IPv6 access. • Tunneling via Cloudflare: Not recommended for BOINC. Cloudflare's free and standard plans strictly prohibit using their network for high-volume, non-HTML data transfers (like large BOINC input/output files). Proxying heavy data transfers through Cloudflare will violate their Terms of Service and get your domain flagged or suspended. Furthermore, Cloudflare cannot easily sit in front of a server that relies on deep university firewall rules without complex configurations. Sounds like enabling IPv6 can't hurt. I will do that. ID: 4456 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote