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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (its back up again) (lemmy.today)
submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 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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[–] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

are you sure it wasnt the tesseract dev slipping in some javascript to DDOS your instance?

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