Well, I was still having some server issues, even though I was pretty sure I knocked the attacks happening here off the map. So I began monitoring traffic elsewhere, especially in some of the nooks and crannies of my server that I don't frequent much any more.

Turns out, some idiots actually scripted their spam-bots to attack my ancient CMS, Noink. Now, Noink isn't used anywhere anymore, except for a couple of legacy sites on my server that I only keep up because I think that URIs shouldn't change. So, the bottom line was they were targeting a dead CMS that no one used or cared about any more.

The problem this was causing us was that we were getting around 2 megs worth of link-spam submitted per hour, which was causing all sorts of problems server wide (including the ClanAM sites).

I've now disabled all of the forum code from Noink (which is where the spam-bots were getting in), so it's now shut off and wont contribute to our other attacks.

This should help things greatly.

I'm still monitoring the rest of my legacy stuff to see if anything else is being attacked. I'll keep everyone informed.

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