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Saidit is currently undergoing the largest DDOS attack we've ever had
submitted 3 years ago * by magnora7[A] from self.SaidIt
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[–]magnora7[S] 32 insightful - 3 fun32 insightful - 2 fun33 insightful - 2 fun33 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago* (1 child)
Our connection counts log per hour looks like this:
7pm: 241,253 connections (normal traffic)
8pm: 227,166 connections
9pm: 3,918,069 connections
10pm: 11,287,220 connections
Seems like someone has a botnet at their disposal or something, there's no way one computer can generate so many requests I don't think
edit: 11pm: 6,990,516 connections
12am: 1,196,567 connections
So maybe getting back to normal...
edit2: I think it's done, we had a total of 23 million connection attempts in excess of normal (compared to 1 million normal connections over this same period). So they 23x'd our traffic for the duration of the attack, basically. But it wasn't evenly spread across time, so at the peak it was probably around 200x our normal traffic rate. D3rr and I learned a new spot to improve so our defenses only got better. Have a good night everyone!
[–]wicklesnarf 12 insightful - 17 fun12 insightful - 16 fun13 insightful - 16 fun13 insightful - 17 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
I think about a million of those connection attempts were me. It just kept giving me endless bicycle captchas and wouldn't let me in. I thought maybe I was banished forever
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[–]magnora7[S] 32 insightful - 3 fun32 insightful - 2 fun33 insightful - 2 fun33 insightful - 3 fun - (1 child)
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