geez

Posted Aug 22, 2025 17:46 UTC (Fri) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
In reply to: geez by pizza
Parent article: Arch Linux recent service outages

> (Two days ago I blocked a crawler botnet that had exceeded 1.5 *million* unique IP addresses)

These ones are really painful because in addition they're totally dumb and can retrieve tar.gz from gitweb pages etc. In fact they're stupidly reading more contents than humans would consume, and hope to provide knowledge to humans based on all this noise.