429 Too Many Requests

[jacbier]

After installing SMF 2.1.2 I get a lot of "429 Too Many Requests" errors. I never got this error message before. No new mods have been installed since the last version of SMF was installed.

Are there others who are also experiencing this?

Is there a way to reduce the number of requests?

[SpacePhoenix]

Shared or dedicated server?

Any new errors in either the PHP or MySQL error logs?

[Kira_]

It is unlikely that this is related to SMF. Try to wait a bit. If it doesn't stop by itself, contact your hoster.

[Doug Heffernan]

I agree with @Kira_, this is rather related to the host than Smf. Usually this type of message happens whenever someone repeatedly accesses a website and exceeds the rate limit. When there is not enough memory to process the requests, the 429 error occurs.

[live627]

could it be the polling script for the alerts?

[vbgamer45]

@live627  I had someone mention that an issue that might be related https://www.smfhacks.com/index.php/topic,10229.msg45455/ with alerts. Was hoping to get more data.

[shawnb61]

To me, this sounds similar:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=582301.0

And I wonder if disabling host name lookups helps.

[live627]

@live627  I had someone mention that an issue that might be related https://www.smfhacks.com/index.php/topic,10229.msg45455/ with alerts. Was hoping to get more data.

I believe that's @FrizzleFried

I wonder if there us a way to limit alert polling if multiple site tabs are open. Maybe via localStorage...

[FrizzleFried]

My webadmin determined it came down to my BADGES mod and the ALERTS system sending badges alerts.  We're still trying to determine why one evidently got stuck and sent THOUSANDS...

[FrizzleFried]

could it be the polling script for the alerts?

This.  This is exactly what it was.   We're trying to determine WHY/HOW.

[FrizzleFried]

@live627  I had someone mention that an issue that might be related https://www.smfhacks.com/index.php/topic,10229.msg45455/ with alerts. Was hoping to get more data.

Unfortunately the webadmin did provide more data... from many days later... which was the exact same data I sent (but at a different time) earlier vbgamer45.  I can send it along if you wish but I figured it wouldn't be helpful.

[FrizzleFried]

This is the data my webadmin sent...

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Not sure if this helps?

"There were no hits on badge today at all when I checked previously, I was only showing the first entry in the logs to show how long it has been logging.

I checked again and got the following 7 entries:"

50.4.68.179 - - [13/May/2022:09:10:02 -0400] "GET /badges/61828aec79215.png HTTP/1.1" 200 2645 "https://www.NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=30768.2500" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36 Edg/101.0.1210.39"
50.4.68.179 - - [13/May/2022:09:10:02 -0400] "GET /badges/609026d623fae.png HTTP/1.1" 200 2606 "https://www.NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=30768.2500" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36 Edg/101.0.1210.39"
50.4.68.179 - - [13/May/2022:09:10:02 -0400] "GET /badges/609026b0c7f64.png HTTP/1.1" 200 2216 "https://www.NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=30768.2500" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36 Edg/101.0.1210.39"
73.120.100.158 - - [13/May/2022:09:13:34 -0400] "GET /badges/thumb_big_620a80b41e8eb.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "https://www.NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=32987.msg843891;topicseen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15"
73.120.100.158 - - [13/May/2022:09:13:34 -0400] "GET /badges/thumb_big_622bbc3771fe4.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "https://www.NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=32987.msg843891;topicseen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15"
73.120.100.158 - - [13/May/2022:09:13:34 -0400] "GET /badges/5026bf4e7a58f.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "https://www.NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=32987.msg843891;topicseen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15"
73.120.100.158 - - [13/May/2022:09:13:34 -0400] "GET /badges/thumb_big_61f809dabb096.png HTTP/1.1" 200 1458 "https://NOFOLLOW.com/index.php?topic=32987.msg843891;topicseen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Safari/605.1.15"

The logs rotate frequently -- We don't have the data from earlier in the week.