Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)

Re:Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of ... by alpb on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:30PM (#36949139)

Really interesting. I never heard of this website and was surprised to hear this volume of traffic it's getting. (I always used curlmyip.org or whatsmyip.net|.com). I wonder what is the rationale for providing a non-rate limited service that can be easily abused like this. The volume almost suggests some stuff like IoT devices or other software use this to test internet connectivity. Or botnets?

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Re:Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of ... by thefifthsetpin on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:56PM (#36949440)

I believe that creating a traffic rate-limiting system, which is more cost-effective than simply echoing back the requestor's IP address, is likely to be a complex task. However, I haven't personally performed the calculations to confirm this.

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Re:Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of ... by vlan0 on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:01PM (#36950588)

>Seeing that over 90% of my traffic load was malicious and abusive was frustrating. Dealing with the abuse emails and complaints was worse.

My take. I suspect Cloudflare benefited allowing that traffic. It's another data point/tool in their toolbox against the baddies.

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Re:Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of ... by mhayden on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:58AM (#36955380)

That was something I discussed with them and I certainly hope they're doing it now. ;)

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