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

Thank you!

I dont want cloudflare either. :)

[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

First, thank you for all the hard work you do.

Second, as someone still struggling to understand lemmy, one of the reasons I'm not a fan of old.lemmy.world is that I have to turn on cloudflare.

I have noscript running and I have cloudlflare blocked.

Your response implies otherwise that you don't have cloudflare running either.

So why am I always greeted with cloudflare when I visit old.lemmy.world?

Edit: Oh I misread the title. Its old.lemmy.today that you're talkinga bout, not old.lemmy.world.

My goof. Please ignore my post, but do take my gratitude.

Edit 2: So I went over to old.lemmy.today. It is tempting to switch. I like the default interface and it has content from a lot of places (on quick glance). One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of old.slrpnk.net is that I can't figure out how to access content from other instances. I seem tempted to switch.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

You are very welcome if you do. Its the same content in old.lemmy.today as lemmy.today, just a different look. :)

I dont like cloudflare so doing my best to avoid it if I can.