We've seen some issues with AZ again today. On investigating it looks like more DDOS/abuse traffic from overseas. I've applied the same sort of block as last time we saw this, and things appear to have returned to normal..
The sharp drop is when the "attack" started, the jump is when it was blocked... the red line is blocked requests.
maniacalmanicmania - 7mon
Are the requests from a single source?
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Lodion 🇦🇺 - 7mon
IP? No. Country, ASN and user agent? Yes. Which now will receive a captcha.
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eureka - 7mon
Could be a scraper? But it doesn't sound much like one if the user agent wasn't clear, or suspicious. A DoS attack would probably be making an odd request, intended to waste the most resources possible.
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Zagorath - 7mon
I may have pissed off the users from that other Australian Lemmy instance today. I hope that didn't cause it.
Oh shit. There are a few, apparently. No, I was referring to lemmy.net.au.
Only seems to have one particularly active user, and they're a (probably American) troll.
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Nath - 7mon
Ha! We are not even the biggest instance in Australia. Nor are we the oldest or most used.
The biggest/oldest Australian instance I know of is Blahaj. While you can argue they're more global than Australian, I count them because 1. I am super proud of them and what they've built and 2. Ada is in Brisbane and active in our communities. 😀
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Gorgritch_Umie_Killa - 7mon
I had no idea Blahaj was Australian run! Super interesting!
Are there any more Australian instances?
I suppose AZ was just the first to really dive in to fill that Australian communities niche in a somewhat organised way.
lodion in meta
More DDOS(?) traffic 19/5/25
We've seen some issues with AZ again today. On investigating it looks like more DDOS/abuse traffic from overseas. I've applied the same sort of block as last time we saw this, and things appear to have returned to normal..
The sharp drop is when the "attack" started, the jump is when it was blocked... the red line is blocked requests.
Are the requests from a single source?
IP? No. Country, ASN and user agent? Yes. Which now will receive a captcha.
Could be a scraper? But it doesn't sound much like one if the user agent wasn't clear, or suspicious. A DoS attack would probably be making an odd request, intended to waste the most resources possible.
I may have pissed off the users from that other Australian Lemmy instance today. I hope that didn't cause it.
There’s another instance?
quokk.au maybe? Dunno.
Oh shit. There are a few, apparently. No, I was referring to lemmy.net.au.
Only seems to have one particularly active user, and they're a (probably American) troll.
Ha! We are not even the biggest instance in Australia. Nor are we the oldest or most used.
The biggest/oldest Australian instance I know of is Blahaj. While you can argue they're more global than Australian, I count them because 1. I am super proud of them and what they've built and 2. Ada is in Brisbane and active in our communities. 😀
I had no idea Blahaj was Australian run! Super interesting!
Are there any more Australian instances?
I suppose AZ was just the first to really dive in to fill that Australian communities niche in a somewhat organised way.
Not from Australia.
smh
They probably had it comin
Another web scraping bot blocked.
So this is still going on now. I've expanded the block to catch more of the dodgy traffic.