That's a good question. I hadn't noticed any foreign IPs in the few that I checked from the Who's Online list. I just dove into Welalizer and found these stats so far for January. The vast majority of hits are listed as Unresolved/Unknown as far as Country of origin. In the second list showing prevalence of sites hitting the board... by way of comparison, looking back at previous months, the average site hits for a total month is between 60,000 and 80,000. So far as of January 19th, we're seeing just shy of 400,000. There was an obvious jump in activity starting on January 6th.. Normal daily sites averaged about 5000, then after the 6th, the average jumped up to 55,000, with peak dailies of 13K and 14K on the 7th and 8th of January.
Breaking down the top 5 sites in that list:
1) 216.244.66.233 is Wowrack.com out of Washington State
2) 66.249.65.45 is Google of of Dallas
3 - 9) 38.180.91.112 and all of the 45.137.213.* are 3NT Solutions out of Dallas (this may be one of the culprits)
10 - 11) 47.76.* are Alibaba Cloud out of Hong Kong
I just IP blocked the Wowrack, 3NT Solutions and Alibaba Cloud IPs and some other foreign IPs further down the list. I'll open Guests back up to reading the board and see if this helps.
Top 16 of 16 Total Countries
# Hits Files KBytes Country
1 2982462 92.92% 2772083 92.76% 45724596 94.71% Unresolved/Unknown
2 211109 6.58% 207762 6.95% 2340566 4.85% Commercial (com)
3 13418 0.42% 13172 0.44% 192604 0.40% Network (net)
4 1676 0.05% 1464 0.05% 14180 0.03% European Union
5 548 0.02% 68 0.00% 1339 0.00% Czech Republic
6 173 0.01% 142 0.00% 970 0.00% Non-Profit (org)
7 47 0.00% 39 0.00% 3475 0.01% Germany
8 34 0.00% 33 0.00% 301 0.00% Russian Federation
9 31 0.00% 31 0.00% 902 0.00% US Government (gov)
10 26 0.00% 12 0.00% 198 0.00% British Indian Ocean Territory
11 23 0.00% 23 0.00% 802 0.00% Canada
12 21 0.00% 13 0.00% 387 0.00% Switzerland
13 4 0.00% 2 0.00% 1 0.00% Denmark
14 4 0.00% 0 0.00% 5 0.00% United Kingdom
15 2 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% US Military (mil)
16 1 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 0.00% Generic Business (biz)
Top 30 of 398956 Total Sites
# Hits Files KBytes Visits Hostname
1 95444 2.97% 94978 3.18% 11695140 24.22% 18 0.05% 216.244.66.233
2 78648 2.45% 73067 2.44% 983736 2.04% 65 0.20% 66.249.65.45
3 48450 1.51% 46735 1.56% 394663 0.82% 131 0.40% 38.180.91.112
4 43082 1.34% 41404 1.39% 352299 0.73% 115 0.35% 45.137.213.83
5 42877 1.34% 41285 1.38% 350827 0.73% 125 0.38% 45.137.213.88
6 42664 1.33% 41112 1.38% 349684 0.72% 118 0.36% 45.137.213.92
7 42617 1.33% 41049 1.37% 346164 0.72% 116 0.35% 45.137.213.93
8 42512 1.32% 40886 1.37% 347470 0.72% 129 0.39% 45.137.213.86
9 41726 1.30% 40129 1.34% 337186 0.70% 122 0.37% 45.137.213.84
10 39427 1.23% 19364 0.65% 116637 0.24% 84 0.26% 47.76.209.138
11 39291 1.22% 19479 0.65% 116111 0.24% 75 0.23% 47.76.99.127
12 32364 1.01% 30772 1.03% 428749 0.89% 24 0.07% 66.249.65.46
13 32033 1.00% 32017 1.07% 4937 0.01% 5 0.02% 47.233.39.116
14 30232 0.94% 27142 0.91% 234925 0.49% 82 0.25% 38.34.183.94
15 28489 0.89% 25716 0.86% 217654 0.45% 79 0.24% 38.145.218.218
16 17768 0.55% 17669 0.59% 28285 0.06% 12 0.04% 108.21.78.84
17 11850 0.37% 11234 0.38% 158145 0.33% 22 0.07% crawl-66-249-65-32.googlebot.com
18 10566 0.33% 10522 0.35% 36493 0.08% 13 0.04% 68.83.255.52
19 7608 0.24% 7607 0.25% 74797 0.15% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.73
20 7560 0.24% 7558 0.25% 74896 0.16% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.80
21 7467 0.23% 7466 0.25% 73021 0.15% 1 0.00% 154.54.249.200
22 7418 0.23% 7281 0.24% 77372 0.16% 0 0.00% 51.222.253.18
23 7401 0.23% 7278 0.24% 76895 0.16% 7 0.02% 51.222.253.16
24 7365 0.23% 7222 0.24% 76593 0.16% 8 0.02% 51.222.253.5
25 7335 0.23% 7333 0.25% 72297 0.15% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.76
26 6907 0.22% 6907 0.23% 67419 0.14% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.81
27 6901 0.22% 6776 0.23% 73221 0.15% 3 0.01% proxy-ca013-ext2.a.ahrefs.com
28 6843 0.21% 6842 0.23% 67669 0.14% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.72
29 6842 0.21% 6841 0.23% 67174 0.14% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.79
30 6799 0.21% 6799 0.23% 65900 0.14% 0 0.00% 217.113.194.75
