Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack

Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by archerx on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:32AM (#34787608)

I would add Turkey to that list. Many many years ago I had a kind of popular podcast about computer graphics and all of my grief was coming from Turkey. After I banned all of Turkey‘s IPs my drama was over. Occasionally I would get an email from someone saying they couldn’t listen to the episodes and I would explain to them why their country is blocked and they would say it’s not fair, I couldn’t disagree, its not fair but such is life.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by jb1991 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:40AM (#34787643)

I'm curious what kind of grief a country caused you for a podcast. What were they doing?

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by archerx on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:51AM (#34787700)

Constantly trying to get to the backend of the site and occasional ddos. Once one of them managed to deface the front page I had enough and just banned all of Turkey.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by m_eiman on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:55AM (#34787731)

What were they upset about? "Computer graphics" doesn't sound like a controversial topic.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by archerx on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:58AM (#34787744)

I think they just wanted to deface the site for hacker cred. This was a long time ago.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by m00dy on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:53AM (#34787717)

I would remove Turkey from that list. Because, Turks are turks and they should have their own category. Also, Why would turks specifically target a computer graphics podcast ? I don't think it makes sense at all...

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by archerx on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:56AM (#34787733)

I don’t know but when I blocked Turkey all the script kiddy attacks stopped. Honestly I don’t care about turkey, I just wanted the attacks to stop.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by b3lvedere on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:18AM (#34787883)

Fair is not the right word. Your house, your rules.

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