Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I’ve banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.

I’ve tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.

This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn’t anymore.

The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:

  • Salamander@mander.xyzEnglish
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    7 个月前

    Did this spike for you these past weeks? I’m not sure if it just happens to be our instance’s turn or if they have up-scaled their efforts. I have been playing wack-a-mole with IP ranges.

    • Shadow@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      7 个月前

      I ended up turning up the cloudflare challenge mode on old.lemmy.ca and that sorted most of it. Haven’t noticed anything since then.

      • Salamander@mander.xyzEnglish
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        7 个月前

        That’s good! There’s some hope that this won’t last forever then. Thanks.

        And it’s interesting that the challenge via old.lemmy.ca was so impactful. The first wave of bots that I noticed also came through an Mlmym front-end that I make accessible via tor. But lately they have been hitting directly via the regular front-end.