Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
bcwhite
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
4 ms
·
1.
▲
by
bcwhite
1y ago
An idea I had was a custom kernel that replied ACK (or SYN+ACK) to every TCP packet. All connections would appear to stay open forever, eating all incoming traffic, and never replying, all while using zero resources of the device. Bots mi
2.
▲
by
bcwhite
1y ago
I redirect such traffic to a subdomain with an IP address that isn't assigned (or legally assignable). The bots just wait for a response to connection requests but never gets them. This seems to typically cost 10s waiting. The traff