Error on the forums

[mark1million]

Hi Nabeel,

I keep getting the following error on the forums,

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/0.8.34

I thought it was me using chrome so i switched to ff and now its started again on that browser when i click on a post.

Is any one else getting this?

[Tom]

Yes I'm getting this a lot too, but every now and then I can get on to read (i.e. now)

[Nabeel]

Yeah, it's getting worse now, I'm going to recompile PHP and all, something funky is up. Sorry!!

[Conor]

I thought it was just my ipod

[Nabeel]

Nah, it seems like someone is trying to hammer the site

[mark1million]

Seems OK now even with chrome. I use fail2ban,

apt-get install fail2ban
Edit the configuration file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf to set up blocking for various services. SSH blocking will be enabled by default. To make sure you don't accidentally lock yourself out of services, you can set the ignoreip variable to match your home or office connection's IP address. Set bantime to specify how long (in seconds) bans should last. Themaxretry variable specifies the default number of tries a connection may be attempted by any IP before a ban is put in place.
Fail2ban will monitor your log files for failed login attempts. After an IP address has exceeded the maximum number of authentication attempts, it will be blocked at the network level and the event will be logged in /var/log/fail2ban.log