Post #3828994

2026-06-29 00:18 UTC

@BartV@mastodon.social @corbet@social.kernel.org @lwn@fedi.lwn.net @blenderartists@mastodon.art Who would have a motive to DDoS LWN or Blender? Other than Microsoft and Adobe, of course. Most likely those IPs are from residential proxies so you can't do an easy filtering rule like "Block all IPs in AWS/GCP/Azure address spaces". There were revelations last week than half of all Smart TV apps include residential proxy SDKs.

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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org 2026-06-29 04:08

@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net At SFC, we've been seeing the primary culprit is .cn IP numbers and Zuckerberg. & I can confirm User-Agent is fiction, at least from those parties. robots.txt of course ignored. Cc: @BartV@mastodon.social @corbet@social.kernel.org @lwn@fedi.lwn.net @blenderartists@mastodon.art

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