Hi,

We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.

Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.

Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again…

Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.

  • mehquestion@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    Hi I just wanted to follow up on something

    Since last evening, I can’t access old.lemmy.today (I can still access lemmy.today but that’s not an interface I like).

    Are you having bot issues again or is there something I messed up on my end?

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      3·
      4 days ago

      Now it should work well again. I put it behind anubis and we will see if it improves the situation with the bots.

      • mehquestion@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        I’m so sorry to constantly pester you, but I have another question.

        I’ve been enjoying old.lemmy.today for the past few days. The biggest praise I can give it: I haven’t missed reddit at all, and the smaller community actually makes it feel like an upgrade. Like the reddit of old.

        But I wanted to make an account on Lemmy.today to make a post, however to register it seems I need an email address.

        I don’t want to give an email address. I could give a disposable one from one of those sites, but that would be obvious (to what it sounds like is a human curation process).

        I know you said its to ward off bots, I’m wondering if its a temporary pause, or if its a permanent policy?

        • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
          2·
          3 days ago

          It’s fine to not give an email address. It’s just for the email to let you know that you were approved or denied. So if you put something random there and check if you can login later, it’s all good.

          I think it’s even optional to give it… You can try registering without. :)

          • mehquestion@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

            On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn’t seem to work either.

            Is there something obvious I’m missing?

            • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
              1·
              3 days ago

              No, I checked and we do require email. I wasnt sure what was set there but yep, its required. But just put any email address there if you dont want to use a real one. You just wont get an email with approval or denyal after account creation, so you have to come back later and try to log in at some point.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      3·
      4 days ago

      It was down overnight and today im working on trying to get anubus to work with it, so it will be unstable… :)