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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 9 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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What is your reverse proxy software?

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Just nginx.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You can look into Anubis then.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

Much appreciated sir. :)