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If you experience issues or problems with this instance (lemmy.today), this is the place to discuss them. Or if you just want to ask questions about how something works. Anything related to the instance or lemmy itself.

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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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[โ€“] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up. I got a brief error message a while ago and figured that's what happened. Good job keeping the instance going!

[โ€“] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you! These ddos attacks are annoying but not so common after all. Last time was like 3 months ago or something.