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When I was running a home server as a kid, I IP-blocked the entire continent of Asia because I was constantly getting pings, portscans, HTTP path guesses, SSH a
by morshu9001 9mo ago
When I was running a home server as a kid, I IP-blocked the entire continent of Asia because I was constantly getting pings, portscans, HTTP path guesses, SSH auth attempts, etc randomly from there. Of course I secured my stuff to the best of my knowledge, but I still didn't want that harassment cause 1. who knows 2. could be ddos'd.
When finding help on how to do this, people were saying it's useless cause they can proxy/VPN anyway, but obviously that has some cost to them because they weren't doing that. So seeing how I had no legitimate traffic from there, it was an easy choice and cut out like 99% of abuse.
- chrneu 9mo agolol you should see how bad it is nowadays. Like 90% of my traffic is from SE Asia or germany trying to scrape my site. I blocked like a dozen countries because of it. Singapore itself is an insane amount of traffic for me.
- akdor1154 9mo agoSingapore could be due to being a common VPN exit node for within SE Asia? Close by and avoids the most common regional blacklists (and gov firewalls of course).
- morshu9001 9mo agoI saw lots of Singapore traffic back in the early 2010s too, and often see it listed on random free VPN and proxy sites
- sunaookami 9mo agoI think it's due to Tencent Cloud providing cheap servers in Singapore. I had the same issue and blocked all of their offending IP ranges from these ASNs and it was all Tencent or Huawei Cloud.