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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/lemmytoday@lemmy.today

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Hi,

We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.

Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.

Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again...

Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Very good, I pulled the latest version.

Thanks for your work on this, and the code you added to forward ip numbers was super useful today to see where these botnets are coming from. Really appreciate it.