[Slackbuilds-users] slackbuilds.org not accessible via IPv6

[Charadon]

On my ftp server, I got my firewall set up so it only allows 1 
connection at a time and rate limits them to 1M. Did you guys try that 
out of curiosity? It works wonders at stopping bots from hitting my 
server. (I guess they timeout, or it's slow enough that it doesn't get 
me to the bandwidth limit)

Obviously 1M might be a bit too slow for a big server like 
slackbuilds.org =P


-----Original Message-----
From: Robby Workman [mailto:rworkman at slackbuilds.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 03:38 AM -04
To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] slackbuilds.org not accessible via IPv6

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:50:36 +0200
Marco Moock <mm at dorfdsl.de> wrote:

Hello!
I can't access SBo via IPv6, no answer, no ICMP. I assume it is an
improperly configured firewall there.

Can somebody of the admins please investigate?


That is intentional.

Unfortunately, we were hit by a large number of bots from various
ipv6 addresses, each of which downloaded Slackware ISO images
repeatedly, which caused us to go *way* over the transfer bandwidth
allowed as part of our agreement with the colo host.

We've got better things to do than play cat-and-mouse, especially
when there's practically an infinite number of (cats|mice), and
we certainly have better things on which we can spend the insane
amounts of money that the game will cost us.

-RW


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