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:

  • Shadow@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    Too many IPs, so I did it by ASN at cloudflare.

    • AS4134 Chinanet backbone
    • AS45102 Alibaba cloud
    • AS136907 Huawei cloud
    • AS132203 Tencent
    • AS4812 China telecom
    • AS21859 Zenlayer
    • AS56041 China mobile
    • AS134762 Chinanet
    • AS56048 China mobile
    • AS24444 Shandong
    • AS38019 Tianjin mobile
    • AS134810 China mobile
    • AS56046 China mobile
    • AS56040 China mobile
    • AS24400 Shanghai mobile
    • AS17638 Tianjin provincial net
    • AS132525 Heilngjiang
    • AS24547 Hebei mobile
    • AS4808 Unicom bejing
    • AS17621 Unicom shanghai
    • AS56047 China mobile
    • AS4837 China unicom
    • AS56042 China mobile
    • AS9808 China Mobile

    There’s just no way we have thousands of legitimate but logged out users browsing old.lemmy.ca from their phone in China.