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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago by 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.

Edit 3: Decided to require login for old.lemmy.today instead of using anubis.

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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for keeping the instance running. I happened to get a error message smth about the instance being broken and remembering that disk upgrade post from a couple days ago I feared the DB got nuked for a sec hehe.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The db is like the holy grail for a lemmy instance. Heavily backed up and fortified. :)

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