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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 14 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.

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

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[-] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 2 points 1 week ago

One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of old.slrpnk.net is that I can't figure out how to access content from other instances.

old.slrpnk.net should still have posts from other instances, as far as I can tell. They only show local stuff by default, so you have to set “listing” to “all” to see them (the small toggle under the yellow tagline). If you want to primarily interact with posts from other instances, lemmy.today is probably the better choice though either way. slrpnk.net looks like it mostly focuses on local communities.

I have noscript running and I have cloudlflare blocked.

The good thing about mlmym (the software behind old.lemmy.today, old.lemmy.world, and so on) is that it's entirely usable without JavaScript :)

So as long as there isn't something like cloudflare in the way that does require JS, it should work fine to use it that way.

Looking at it right now though, @mrmanager@lemmy.today it looks like old.lemmy.today is erroring with 502?

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I had to take it down overnight and currently experimenting with anubis for it... will be a bit unstable today.. :)

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