2 ms·
Just accept that a DDoS might happen and that there's nothing you can do about it. It's fine, it's just how the Internet works.
by q3k 11mo ago
Just accept that a DDoS might happen and that there's nothing you can do about it. It's fine, it's just how the Internet works.
- herbst 11mo agoThat was possible when a DDos was usually still an occasional attack by a bad actor. Most time I get ddosed now it's either Facebook directly, Something something Azure or any random AI.
- q3k 11mo agoThat sounds like an app-level (D)DoS, which is generally something you can mitigate yourself.
- geerlingguy 11mo agoIt's harder when it's a new group of IPs and happens 2-3x every month.
- herbst 11mo agoAnd if you do rule based blocking they just change their approach. I am constantly blocking big corps these days, barely any work with normal bad actors. And lots of real users time wasted for captchas.
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- nhecker 11mo agoHow (or to what end) would Facebook want to directly DoS someone?
- herbst 11mo agoWhat do they even have an spider for? I never saw any actual traffic with source Facebook. I don't understand either, but it's their official IPs, their official bot headers and it behaves exactly like someone who wants my sites down. Does it make sense? Nah, but is it part of the weird reality we live in. Looks like it I have no way of contacting Facebook. All I can do is keep complaining on hackernews whenever the topic arrises. Edit:// Oh and I see the same with Azure, however there I have no list of IPs to verify it's official just because it looks like it.
- inferiorhuman 11mo agoI got DoS'd by them once, email not HTTP traffic though. Quick slip of their finger and bam low cost load testing.
- peanut-walrus 11mo agoSo accept that your customers won't be able to use your services whenever some russian teenager is bored? Yeah, good luck with justifying that choice.
- q3k 11mo agoAnd how often does that happen?
- peanut-walrus 11mo agoFor the service I'm responsible for, 4 times in the last 24 hours.
- q3k 11mo agoCongratulations, you're the exception rather than the norm.