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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (its back up again) (lemmy.today)
submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by [M] 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...

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[–] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

When I was running a web server this was a common occurrence. Most of the DDOS attacks I experienced came from China.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah its very common. Some instances block the entire Chinese internet for this reason...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    This is a genuine question, but why doesn't this instance? Is it because we would miss out on some content? I mean you are much more in touch with the technicalities, but do we have a mandarin speaking user base you're not trying to alienate?

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