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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 15 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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[-] mehquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you again (I waited a week before messaging you), but I wanted to check in on something. Last weekend, I wasn't able to access old.lemmy.world.

Around Tuesday or so, I could access the site, but I can't see any comments. I always get a 403 Forbidden error (with the words nginx at the bottom).

Is this is a problem on my end that I can fix?

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, we had to require an account to use the old.lemmy.today site. So just create an account and log in. :)

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