Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.
I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.
This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.
The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:
Just saw this from dbzer0:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44522693
Another one I've heard of is Anubis.
No idea if either of these would be appropriate in this case.
Neat - https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/how-it-works/
The load wasn't causing any issues, I was just getting ahead of it. I'm not worried about deploying countermeasures yet.
Also see https://lemmy.ca/post/43060353
I might try out anubis on old.lemmy.ca specifically, since bots seem to love it the most
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection