Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I’ve banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.

I’ve tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.

This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn’t anymore.

The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    44·
    5 days ago

    Thanks for your hard work. Also it’s very interesting in that the nature of the traffic is unknown. Bots scouring content?

    • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      4 days ago

      My intuition says it’s probably LLM training. AI companies have been increasingly DDoSing the entire web for a while now.