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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:06 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:06 pm
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Folks,

For the last couple of days the www.mflenses.com homepage (not the forum) seems to be inaccessible.

For a while any Google searches with the "site:mflenses.com" directive also turned up no results, although this now seems to have come back and is working again.

The mflenses forum (https://forum.mflenses.com) is still accessible if you use the direct login link.

I used to access this forum by just going to the www.mflenses.com homepage and clicking on the "Forum" link, but this is no longer accessible, so I am now using the direct login link (https://forum.mflenses.com/login.php).

Anyone aware of any maintenance issues re. the www.mflenses.com home page? (Attila's MFlenses banner at the top of this forum also no longer works).


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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:18 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:18 pm
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RokkorDoctor wrote:
Folks,

For the last couple of days the www.mflenses.com homepage (not the forum) seems to be inaccessible.

For a while any Google searches with the "site:mflenses.com" directive also turned up no results, although this now seems to have come back and is working again.

The mflenses forum (https://forum.mflenses.com) is still accessible if you use the direct login link.

I used to access this forum by just going to the www.mflenses.com homepage and clicking on the "Forum" link, but this is no longer accessible, so I am now using the direct login link (https://forum.mflenses.com/login.php).

Anyone aware of any maintenance issues re. the www.mflenses.com home page? (Attila's MFlenses banner at the top of this forum also no longer works).


Sounds awfully similar to what happened (gradually) to the artaphot site. I noticed an (unrelated) bogus hompage / starting site when trying to reach "mflenses.com" (including a securty warning from firefox); exactly the sameas when troubles started first with the artaphot site.

Not good.

S


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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:38 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:38 pm
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stevemark wrote:
RokkorDoctor wrote:
Folks,

For the last couple of days the www.mflenses.com homepage (not the forum) seems to be inaccessible.

For a while any Google searches with the "site:mflenses.com" directive also turned up no results, although this now seems to have come back and is working again.

The mflenses forum (https://forum.mflenses.com) is still accessible if you use the direct login link.

I used to access this forum by just going to the www.mflenses.com homepage and clicking on the "Forum" link, but this is no longer accessible, so I am now using the direct login link (https://forum.mflenses.com/login.php).

Anyone aware of any maintenance issues re. the www.mflenses.com home page? (Attila's MFlenses banner at the top of this forum also no longer works).


Sounds awfully similar to what happened (gradually) to the artaphot site. I noticed an (unrelated) bogus hompage / starting site when trying to reach "mflenses.com" (including a securty warning from firefox); exactly the sameas when troubles started first with the artaphot site.

Not good.

S


And now the direct login link doesn't work anymore either... Sad

I'm not going to say how I still got in, in case some joker is trying to deny all access points...


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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:46 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:46 pm
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Thank you for the warning ! I will fix it soon.


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:32 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:32 pm
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No problemos here


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:40 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:40 pm
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Himself wrote:
No problemos here


Sure? I stll get this warning message from firefox:



S


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:54 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:54 pm
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I fixed this issue www and without www https address. Please try again!


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:18 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:18 pm
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Yep - works!

Thanks a lot - life would be unbearable without mflenses Wink

S


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 3:38 pm
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Thank you for your care for all of You!


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:00 pm
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Attila wrote:
Thank you for your care for all of You!


Thanks Attila, all seems fine again now! Like 1 small


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:39 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:39 pm
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Thank you! Attila! Everything works fine now as before.


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 7:52 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 7:52 pm
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stevemark wrote:
Himself wrote:
No problemos here


Sure? I stll get this warning message from firefox:


S


I use Chrome


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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 8:03 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 8:03 pm
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Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic -- Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/record-ddos-pummels-site-with-once-unimaginable-7-3tbps-of-junk-traffic/


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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:14 am
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Himself wrote:
stevemark wrote:
Himself wrote:
No problemos here


Sure? I stll get this warning message from firefox:


S


I use Chrome

I use both Chrome and Safari, and I was experiencing the problem on both browsers. I don't think it was a browser compatibility issue. But Attila already fixed it, whatever it was Smile


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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:48 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:48 pm
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I take it off mflenses.com for a while due every day I had to fight with idiots , was non stop crawled and I really can't do anything else now just take it off.


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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:53 pm
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Thank you! Friends


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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 4:52 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 4:52 pm
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mflenses.com operate again.
This was, until now, the most tricky and largest scale attack
I had to ban 148 000 unique IP addresses.

Blocklist written to blocklist.txt
Ipset add script written to block_ipset.sh
Number of entries: 148860


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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 5:12 pm
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Shocked


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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2025 9:37 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2025 9:37 am
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Attila wrote:
mflenses.com operate again.
This was, until now, the most tricky and largest scale attack
I had to ban 148 000 unique IP addresses.

Blocklist written to blocklist.txt
Ipset add script written to block_ipset.sh
Number of entries: 148860


OMG thanks Attila that this is gone!!!


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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 4:53 pm
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Hi Attila just to let you know I have just been having trouble getting onto mflenses.com - seems to be smae issues, firefox coming back with "wrong certificate", when I pushed it through went to hungarian web site.... ://a.logo1.hu/


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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 9:50 pm
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We are still under attack, DDOS this is why not reachable until now 200 000+ unique IP address get banned, second wave is ongoing...


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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:32 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:32 am
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Cloudflare can cure these attacks! https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

(this is not spam! Smile)


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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

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Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. We see continued evidence that Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing their source ASNs to hide their crawling activity, as well as ignoring — or sometimes failing to even fetch — robots.txt files.


Cloudflare engineers tested the behavior by creating new domains with robots.txt files prohibiting all automated access. Despite the restrictions, Perplexity provided detailed information about the protected content when queried, while the stealth crawler generated 3-6 million daily requests across tens of thousands of domains. The undeclared crawler rotated through multiple IP addresses and network providers to evade detection.


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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2025 12:39 pm
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Thank you! Seems we have silent period now, 274000 unique IP was banned.


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Perplexity responds to Cloudflare accusations.

Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/agents-or-bots-making-sense-of-ai-on-the-open-web

Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors https://www.zdnet.com/article/perplexity-says-cloudflares-accusations-of-stealth-ai-scraping-are-based-on-embarrassing-errors/
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