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Re:Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me by jeffwass on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:59AM (#19569457)
Anybody know why blocking the offending IP didn’t work?
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Re:Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me by Jeraz0l on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:26AM (#19569557)
Most likely because he was trying to block the IP at a point where it was forwarded by some other service. At that point, the offending IP would only exist in the x-http-forwarded-for http header and not as the source address of the request.
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Re:Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me by sergiomattei on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:42AM (#19569614)
Yup! This was it.
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