LemmyToday

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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 13 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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[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for keeping the instance running. I happened to get a error message smth about the instance being broken and remembering that disk upgrade post from a couple days ago I feared the DB got nuked for a sec hehe.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The db is like the holy grail for a lemmy instance. Heavily backed up and fortified. :)

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think there is only one Holy Grail and it belongs in a museum.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Protected by a rabbit with nasty big pointy teeth.