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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn't seem to work either.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

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

No, I checked and we do require email. I wasnt sure what was set there but yep, its required. But just put any email address there if you dont want to use a real one. You just wont get an email with approval or denyal after account creation, so you have to come back later and try to log in at some point.