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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours 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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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

I think we are unfortunantly heading in that direction of blocking more and more of them...

And no, no mandarin user base. :)