Post #1138896

2026-01-08 14:24 UTC

@bekopharm @kfitz I started with a simple fail2ban rule which caught the worst offenders, I've also gotten pretty good at letting things hit search boxes and blocking failures. I've also simply banned Alibaba Cloud where a bunch of the requests have come from. I've also put a bunch of work into making sure my error pages are light weight so I can manage to make most of the requests hit 503 and have minimal load costs, and then let normal users browse. My only regret is making a signon wall on my RPG wikis - but seems to be a necessary evil.

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@bekopharm@indieweb.social 2026-01-08 14:32

@silverwizard doing a lot more. It's at a point where it seems to overload my god damn router at home resulting in that thing to reboot. I started running a proxy on a mini Hetzner vcloud system now doing heavy caching and blocking. That has more bandwidth so I'm back to a trickle for now. It's insane what this thing is blocking away. 72430 ips in the last 5 minutes.

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