Vandami Bhante
Where did Bhante look to see Huawei Cloud as origin of the many visitors? Is it through the
Who is logged in page? At the moment, besides some guests, there is one "Google" listed. Is it the same place, where there would be "Huawei Cloud" in the list?
At this moment there are only 14 guests. So maybe it did help to restrict the forum access, but took some time.
Fifteen minutes later: Okay, now there are 160 guests.
Five more minutes later: now 210
Most from IP range 159.138.*, which seems to belong to Huawei Cloud, as confirmed
here as well .
No idea what this "Huawei Cloud service" really all is. But as far as I know Huawei is a great producer of many "internet of things" devices ("intelligent" toasters or whatever kind of silly ideas; household items with a small computer built in, which have an internet connection that they need for some of their functions).
There are many cases where such devices are overtaken by hackers, which can sometimes amount to a huge "army" of toasters and coffee machines doing stuff on the internet, unknown to their owners.
No idea at the moment how to stop the flood without IP-blocking.