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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 4 days 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...

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

Edit 3: Decided to require login for old.lemmy.today instead of using anubis.

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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks to both of you for keeping mlmym alive. It's the best way to use Lemmy and I moved to lemmy.today primarily because they have it as an available interface.

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