urusai.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A friendly and non-toxic English-first Mastodon community for anime, manga, and other otaku subjects.

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We were hit with a web request flood attack today

One user was slamming the server with web requests, including image upload spam to load the server with image reprocessing.

Server slowed to a crawl until I was able to identify the user and freeze their account.

Really wish I had better admin tools to help diagnose these types of attacks :(

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@neatchee That sucks. We appreciate the hard work you put in for the server and dealing with crap like that.

:HugUmaru:

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@gnitro thanks. Was definitely a pain in the ass :RemHmpf:

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@neatchee Yeah I’ve been setting up my own instance today for my other uses and I was pretty surprised how barebones some of the tools and settings are. I managed to rate limit myself on my own instance before discovering those limits aren’t configurable 🙈 I might go build that feature and submit it when I get some spare time.

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@neatchee was wondering what happened this morning. Thanks for the work you do to take care of this place!

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@neatchee
Ayoo, thank you for your hard work!

...do you want us to report sketchy people who have lots of follows and no toots?

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@biscuit nah, I don't mind lurkers :)

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@ami_angelwings @biscuit yesssssssss we must construct additional pylons

This reminds me of one of my favorite gaming clips of all time (I'm friends with one of the casters and didn't see it live but he made damn sure I knew about it haha): youtu.be/CS6UrrRG7Aw