Hi guys,
Another ddos attack so site was slow/unavailable for a while.
I disabled the alternative user interfaces since they are used in the attacks. Will think of some better long term solutions. 🥊 😄
Hi guys,
Another ddos attack so site was slow/unavailable for a while.
I disabled the alternative user interfaces since they are used in the attacks. Will think of some better long term solutions. 🥊 😄
14 Comments
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 301d
Man this sucks. What kind of dickweed DDoSs a lemmy instance? Hope this isn’t causing too much trouble for you.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 301d
Its alright but I also dont know what the point is. Its not like the hundreds of lemmy instances is going anywhere. We are all here to stay around and offer an alternative to big tech platforms. They can ddos a few of us but not all.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 301d
What annoys me most is that they use their malicious energy to attack small innocent websites instead of going after the big evil ones.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 301d
Script kiddies gotta hone their skills somewhere safe before going after the big game
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 301d
Could be random user just doesn't like some other random user with this as their home instance. They don't know the user's IP address, but do know the home instance's and so decided that a way to attack them would be to DDoS the home instance.
IRC had people DoSing other users (and even servers) as part of people getting in fights there.
Thanks for looking into it, @mrmanager@lemmy.today.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 301d
Thank you for your efforts, Chief!
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 301d
The foss world has been getting hit by either targeted DDOS or crippled by LLM scraping for months now. Fingers crossed you weather the storm.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 301d
Yeah i noticed arch linux AUR repository also got hit.
Linux is growing like crazy now, specially as windows 10 is getting shut down.... i love to see it, being a linux user myself. 🙂
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 301d
Sorry to hear that's been happening! I hope they leave you guys alone now.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 301d
Would be nice yeah. I guess we are targeted for not blocking any other instance. But i dont know for sure.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 301d
Sadly it's been my experience that once this crap starts it doesn't stop and engaging some kind of protection upstream from the host eventually becomes necessary. I've used Cloudflare's DDoS protection and / or WAF for this in the past but I know that not everybody wants to work with them.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 301d
Yeah I guess it may be necessary...
JawnZ@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 301d
for old lemmy (MLMYM) are you using the fedihosting-foundation fork? the original isn't maintained, I wonder if there's a vulnerability in it?
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 301d
No I wasnt aware of it. Will check it out!