Saidit is back online after a few days of attacks

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[–]Nummnutzcracker 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

My god that's mental... How did these pesky cunts got Saidit's IP address in the first place?? Glad that things are back to [partially it seems] normal.

[–]go1dfish 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You set up a site, you submit a link to your site (that nobody else is visiting) to saidit and have it fetch the title for suggestion and thumbnail for display.

You then look at your access log to determine the ip of the requestor.

Those services must get moved off of the main machine and designed to fail in a way that won’t impact the rest of the site.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, now you tell us :) Hhahaa... yeah it was probably this. We're going to setup a proxy server to make these requests.

[–]raven9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can’t route those requests through your CDN?

[–]Divine_Lotus 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. These guys need to consider any other failure points.