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Too many connections: 10 >= 10. Waiting one second.

Offline dave simmons

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Re: Too many connections: 10 >= 10. Waiting one second.
« Reply #60 on: November 16, 2018, 12:14:48 PM »
Rather than cluttering the thread I have added some updated fail2ban files and instructions for use here:

https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8955

As a workaround, that seems to have stopped overloading connections for me.

Do I need to apply this in addition to the advice from TerryF?  (Sorry if it's a stupid question!)ยต

ETA:  I see in the logfile that the change has worked - the "spammer" gets rejected after 5 connections.  This is enough for us because we are only 3 users!

Thank you all for your help!  :)
« Last Edit: November 16, 2018, 12:18:49 PM by dave simmons »

Offline ReetP

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Re: Too many connections: 10 >= 10. Waiting one second.
« Reply #61 on: November 16, 2018, 05:44:57 PM »
It's a different way of tackling the same problem, and probably easier if you don't want to go hacking system files.

I haven't had an issue myself since I added it.
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