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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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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

What is your reverse proxy software?

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

    Just nginx.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You can look into Anubis then.

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

    I added Anubis for https://old.lemmy.today/ and will see if it helps the situation. Bots are hammering it pretty hard but they are not getting any lemmy content at least. Thank you for your advice. :)

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