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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)
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A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I understand the need for anti-bot or DDoS protection, but there are better and free options today. Like Anubis. So please, in the love of The Internet, move away from cloudflare. Ideally yesterday already.

Edit: or run your own decent firewall with geo blocks. FireHOL block lists. Intrusion detection.

Setting up fail2ban. . Etc. Etc.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Anubis isn't even comparable to cloudflare. The reason cloudflare is so effective is that they can oversee which IPs are spamming or being abusive to certain websites, and can throw up protections quickly. There are a number of negative implications that come with this, but it's quite good at its primary job.

Anubis is just a prompt that wastes CPU cycles and tries to make it more expensive for AI crawlers to do so (since they care a lot about compute costs, of course). There is no bot protection or anything happening. The "making sure you're not a bot" is quite misleading imo

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Anubis is to protect against scraping from LLMs, it has nothing to do with DDoS protection. Not only that, but the Anubis Github repo recommends most people to use Cloudflare instead, since Anubis is the "nuclear" option.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Well then we are all fked. I recommend then using a good internet connection to host your stuff behind it. I also recommend a good firewall.

A firewall that can block on geo location. Block on ASN level. And intrusion detection. And also use block lists like FireHOL level 1 to 4.

Of course configure fail2ban etc.

Again we really need to come up with alternatives now.. I'm sick of how the current internet develops.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I'm afraid of mass adoption if that won't be fixed.