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. 🥊 😄

  • JawnZ@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 month ago

    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.todayOPM
      7·
      1 month ago

      Would be nice yeah. I guess we are targeted for not blocking any other instance. But i dont know for sure.

  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
    8·
    1 month ago

    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.todayOPM
      5·
      1 month ago

      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. 🙂

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      7·
      1 month ago

      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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Donald J. Musk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        This makes a lot of sense! I personally have had my own little stalkers (there was a guy who created an entire bot army to go against me, got called out on it, then disappeared lol) on here because people just can’t go outside and touch grass sometimes. So your scenario wouldn’t surprise me at all. lol

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 month ago

    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.