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AWS customers have to pay for outbound traffic. Is there a way to get them to send you (or cloudflare) huge volumes of traffic?
by mkj 1y ago
AWS customers have to pay for outbound traffic. Is there a way to get them to send you (or cloudflare) huge volumes of traffic?
- horseradish7k 1y agoyeah, could use a free worker
- compootr 1y agofree workers only get 100k reqs per day or something
- _pdp_ 1y agoA KB zip file can expand to giga / petabytes through recursive nesting - though it depends on their implementation.
- sim7c00 1y agothats traffic in the other direction
- swiftcoder 1y agoThe main joy of a zip bomb is that it doesn't consume much bandwidth - the transferred compressed file is relatively small, and it only becomes huge when the client tries to decompress it in memory afterwards
- crazygringo 1y agoIt's still going in the wrong direction.
- dns_snek 1y agoIt doesn't matter either way. OP was thinking about ways to consume someone's bandwidth. A zip bomb doesn't consume bandwidth, it consumes computing resources of its recipient when they try to unpack it.
- crazygringo 1y agoI know. I was pointing out that it doesn't matter what it consumes if it's going the wrong way to begin with.
- sim7c00 1y agoi wouldnt assume someone sending 700 req per minute or so to a single domain repeatedly (likely to the same resources) will bother opening zip files. the bot in the article is likely being tested (as author noted), or its a very bad 'stresser'. if it was looking for content grabbing it will access differently. (grab resources once and be on its way). its not bad to host zip bombs tho, for the content grabbers :D nomnom. saw an article about a guy on here who generated arbitrary pngs or so. also classy haha. if u have a friendly vps provider who gives unlimited bandwidth these options can be fun. u can make a dashboard which bot has consumed the most junk.
- ruined 1y agonearly every http response is gzipped. unpacking automatically is a default feature of every http client.
- sim7c00 1y agoAccept-Encoding i think would be logical on scrapers these days but maybe its not helpful idk. server should adhere to what client requests afaik.
- mjmas 1y agoThis is using the builtin compression in http: Transfer-Encoding: gzip