submitted 1 week ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Not entirely clear to me what is going on, but we've seen a large influx in traffic from oversea today. This has lead to high CPU and performance issues.

I've put in place a block to what seems to be the source of the traffic, but its not perfect and may cause other issues. If you see/hear of any please let me know here.

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[-] lodion@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago

For some context, CPU usage jumped when the traffic started... and dropped after the block was applied:

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

And for anyone curious... blue line is traffic from a country we don't normally see much traffic from. The unusual spike, then drop when I blocked the specific sources:

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

It's probably Nicole. She's mad that she can't spam us any longer.

[-] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Definitely noticed someyuwas up today. Not just here but lags across a few different websites - my speeds were fine so I wondered if it was a broader DNS or DDoS attacks

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

The traffic stopped a few hours back, from all IPs at once. Definitely seems to have been some sort of deliberate action.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I noticed something was up. I'd seen some meta posts about other instances updating so I wondered if it was a bug or federation issue but obviously not.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

An odd place to attack or try spam, but I guess if you have unlimited resources you would hit anywhere

[-] dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Could be a trial attack.

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I's thinking something was up today!

[-] sunshine@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Definitely some concerning stuff!

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