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Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.

For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

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[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sure but maybe something less centralized/proprietary would be preferable

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's easier said than done, DDoS mitigation requires a large amount of servers that are only really useful to persist an active DDoS attack. It's why everyone uses Cloudflare, because of the amount of customers they serve there's pretty much always an active attack to fend off. Decentralization wouldn't work great for it because you would have to trust every decentralized node not to perform man in the middle attacks. But if you know of any such solution I'd love to hear it.

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah I see the issue but on the other side you would get a more robust network which could also be incentivised by some sort of underlying blockchain technology. The man in the middle attack could also be mitigated on a technical level.

[-] Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Dunno if this guy is just so stupid or is trolling at this point. Using random tech buzzwords that have no relevance to the issue.

[-] Tubamajuba@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

You’ve never blockchained your decentralized DDoS backend with a bi-duplex CDN enumerator?

[-] Raccoonsteer@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Well I did mitigate an attack before using quantum entanglement calibrated against the cosmological constant to mitigated carbon decay. Does that count? Oh and, blockchain and decentralized. Haha

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I myself am not sure who here understands anything about blockchain technology. For you it's just NFT images and shitcoins that you associate with blockchain, isn't it? That knowledge is enough for you to understand the whole technology. Read my other comments and ask yourself first if you have a balanced information base.