Saidit is expanding from 1 server to 3 servers

submitted by magnora7 from (self.SaidIt)

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[–]gretathroatborg 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

what was their 1 weird trick to get ur real ip?

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When you post there is a 'title suggest' button.

They set up a server, made a post linking their server to saidit, used the title suggest, then looked on their servers and saw where the title request was coming from. This was fetched from the real IP, rather than the masked IP. Then they were able to directly DDOS us.

Pretty tricky

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

ya you definitely gotta delegate those network requests out to a proxy box