[Lazarus] lazarus Digest, Vol 206, Issue 1

Sat Mar 1 16:06:02 CET 2025

Hello,

For information, there's this script: https://corz.org/server/tools/anti-hammer/‌. After, it's just a start, against such attacks. As this script is open-source, it can evolve according to your needs (this script need to be installed, either via a `php_value auto_prepend_file command "/home/etc.../anti-hammer.php"` in the Apache server's .htaccess settings, or in the first line of the Php source code inside the `bootstrap.php` file).

This script limits @IP's consumption of resources, per each @IP. When one @IP hammers too much, the said @IP is warned that it's abusing CPU consumption, and then, the said @IP is  automatically banned for 12h ,or 24, or ... hours (Cf. config). The @IPs are logged, too: so, it's possible to insert them manually in a `deny from @IP` inside the .htaccess.

Regards.

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1. Re: New MacOS user (Matthieu Giroux)
2. Re: Forum login times out (gabor)
3. Re: Forum login times out (Michael Van Canneyt)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:18:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: Matthieu Giroux
To: Juha Manninen via lazarus
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] New MacOS user
Message-ID: <2058549246.9497275.1740763087304 at mail.yahoo.com>
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I am searching Mac OS packagers and testers with www.Ancestromania.eu .

Matthieu Giroux 13 Rue Fr Tanguy PRIGENT A.15 - 35000 RennesT?l : 09 61 37 01 82 - 06 44 733 008
http://www.liberlog.fr

Le vendredi 28 f?vrier 2025 ? 11:10:52 UTC+1, Juha Manninen via lazarus a ?crit :

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 8:56?AM DougC via lazarus wrote:

I'd really like to contribute to the Lazarus and FPC projects, but I need to get familiar with them more before making suggestions. I think I would be most helpful in editing documentation, but we will see.

While I do this I think it will be worthwhile to test if the current state of the documentation is as good as we want it to be. So, I'll be doing what I think are smart steps and reporting on the problems I encounter. That way we can turn around and clarify instructions where it seems necessary.

There is HTML documentation for the public APIs, functions and components.Other instructions for installation and usage etc. are in a community wiki. It has the same problems as any?community wiki, namely poorly structured and partly duplicate data spread around because there is no editor-in-chief.If you make corrections there, observe how the bigger structure looks. Don't be afraid to remove data when it is outdated or duplicate.
Juha
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 00:52:45 +0100
From: gabor
To: Lazarus mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Forum login times out
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Please consider some general solution (if there is one) because the
problem will only get worse.

Micha?.

W dniu 2025-02-28 o?08:49, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus pisze:
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>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, DougC via lazarus wrote:
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>> I am trying to login to the site at
>>
>> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2
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>>
>>
>> The site comes back with an error:
>> Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again.
>>
>>
>>
>> The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can someone look at this?
>
> The sites are under what is presumably an AI scraping attack. The admins
> are doing what they can, blocking IP ranges as much as possible..
>
> Michael.
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 09:13:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Michael Van Canneyt
To: Lazarus mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Forum login times out
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And what would that general solution be ?

IMO there is little one can do against what amounts to a DDOS attack,
except throw more money at it: additional machines, additional time etc.

Michael.

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, gabor wrote:

> Please consider some general solution (if there is one) because the problem
> will only get worse.
>
> Micha?.
>
> W dniu 2025-02-28 o?08:49, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus pisze:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, DougC via lazarus wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to login to the site at
>>>
>>> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=login2
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The site comes back with an error:
>>> Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The "lost my password" link also produces a gateway timeout error.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone look at this?
>>
>> The sites are under what is presumably an AI scraping attack. The admins
>> are doing what they can, blocking IP ranges as much as possible..
>>
>> Michael.
>>
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