remote access abuse - gets now blocked
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2026 12:23 pm
Meteobridge provides a very convinient way to be accessed from remote without the need to open and forward ports on your local firewall. The technology behind this is that the Meteobridge sets up a SSH reverse tunnel to the Meteobridge server and the Meteobridge server then acts as a proxy to route your requests to your Meteobridge.
By doing so I take the burden that your Meteobridge requests run through my infrastructure. Since yesterday I have extreme load and status logging on the Meteobridge server by users requesting every second template data via the remote tunnel.
This is no fair use of the infrastructure I provide and I unfortunately have to block these excessive requests. Implemented rule is that a 60 minutes block is issued when there are more than 200 requests in 5 minutes. When heavy use continues, I will set the limit even lower.
P.S.: When you have exessive needs, please setup your router to allow direct access from the Internet to your Meteobridge via port forwarding and setting up your firewall accordingly.
By doing so I take the burden that your Meteobridge requests run through my infrastructure. Since yesterday I have extreme load and status logging on the Meteobridge server by users requesting every second template data via the remote tunnel.
This is no fair use of the infrastructure I provide and I unfortunately have to block these excessive requests. Implemented rule is that a 60 minutes block is issued when there are more than 200 requests in 5 minutes. When heavy use continues, I will set the limit even lower.
P.S.: When you have exessive needs, please setup your router to allow direct access from the Internet to your Meteobridge via port forwarding and setting up your firewall accordingly.