Subj : Internet's Ravishing Orcs (was "Noticed that...")
To   : tenser
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Feb 16 2022 18:48:31

  Re: Re: Notice that...
  By: tenser to Arelor on Thu Feb 17 2022 11:38 am

 >  Ar> You put a hobby server online and russian bots start raping it, with th
 >  Ar> passion of a
 >  Ar> gang of orcs who finds a Nymph tied to a tree in the forest. Place a
 >  Ar> captcha in front
 >  Ar> of your site and they will hire a legion of 3rd worlders to break past
 >  Ar> it and flood
 >  Ar> you anyway. Then you place your site behind a content distribution
 >  Ar> network in order to
 >  Ar> be protected, and become a slave to them (and drag your users with you
 >  Ar> at the same
 >  Ar> time).
 > 
 > Hmm. I have several machines on the Internet and don't seem
 > to suffer from these problems, colorful as the descriptions
 > are.

I am then curious as to what your setups must be. My experience is that if you
set a webservice using a popular CMS, bots will start spamming it to death as
soon as they discover it. Same thing with SMTP servers. Even if your server is
clever enough to discard spammers on sight, the very act of taking them and
discarding them eats away a good chunk of computing power.

I have websites with static analysis engines, and the ammount of evil requests
registered is mind blowing.

Some hobby IRC administrators I know are forced behind a CDN because they would
be DOSed down in a heartbeat if they popped their heads from behind it.

My old College was quite small and wasted from 20 to 40% of their computing
power fending off spam. Heck, web spam even hits Fido and some OtherNets from
time to time because they break through some BBS interface and start polluting
this place. This shit is freaking real.

My pityful home server, using a combination of blacklists and automated bot
detection, blocks around 26400 IP addresses in a given day.

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