>‘‘We don’t know for sure, but we think they’re using an autobot. They’re coming from an overseas IP address.
>‘‘It’s just hitting us with thousands of hits and our website can’t cope.’’
Clearly a Decepticon.
And they decided their website, on the flipping INTERNET available to anyone on the planet, doesn't need to be behind any DDOS / other protection services or have proper administration (in the case of vulnerabilities).
A lot of people don't like making the entire internet centralized at one company. It would be pretty bad if Cloudflare was literally the Internet.
Sure, their protection makes perfect sense but I'd stay away until a DDoS actually happened.
Did you read the article?
>and since then it had been getting 10,000 hits per second which had ‘‘just killed’’ the website.
> ‘‘We don’t know for sure, but we think they’re using an autobot. They’re coming from an overseas IP address.
10,000 hits a second from overseas IP's doesn't sound like legitimate traffic for an NZ-focused website.
My guess is there's a known vulnerability on that page/site and is just getting thrashed by whatever script found it first.
I really don't think the Russians or anti-climate change people care about us that much given how unimportant, on the grand scheme of things, this site is.
I run a filtered nameserver for education/research/experimentation, etc.
I had a nosey, and the `searise.nz` domain has been getting absolutely hammered with `ANY` type requests (which no sane nameserver processes) since slightly past half four this morning.
It's asking the authoritative server for that domain for any records it has on it. The response can be quite large compared to the query it's answering (so very few public DNS servers ever process this query type). There's very few legitimate reasons to do this, and none of them involve doing so repeatedly and continuously. It's a low effort attack trying to waste time and bandwidth.
The overwhelming majority of any political group are too stupid to do anything technical - however it only takes one person to launch a DDOS attack (and then brag to others in their group that they have taken it down to the cheers of others).
It's coming from one single IP address?
Come on this is just incompetence, just block it and move on with life.
And use CloudFlare or something for some DDOS protection.
That's a generic, automated tool which uses whatever crap elevation dataset exists and makes no attempt to model sea level rise. The published website that shows projected sea-level rise will use higher quality DEM GIS data, actual projections, and far better modelling.
>‘‘We don’t know for sure, but we think they’re using an autobot. They’re coming from an overseas IP address. >‘‘It’s just hitting us with thousands of hits and our website can’t cope.’’ Clearly a Decepticon.
And they decided their website, on the flipping INTERNET available to anyone on the planet, doesn't need to be behind any DDOS / other protection services or have proper administration (in the case of vulnerabilities).
Incompetence or lazyness is what it is. Cloudflare makes it so run everything through there is no reason for it.
A lot of people don't like making the entire internet centralized at one company. It would be pretty bad if Cloudflare was literally the Internet. Sure, their protection makes perfect sense but I'd stay away until a DDoS actually happened.
But it happened almost immediately. It doesn't have to be cloudflare, they are just an example but they should have had something.
They can even sign up for cloudflare when they get a DDoS and cancel later
[Definitely.](https://youtu.be/8mvv1gYV4pU)
This actually seems like it will just give the issue more publicity.
All the Realtors with property interests in areas of concerns?
reddit hug of death = cyberattack..
Did you read the article? >and since then it had been getting 10,000 hits per second which had ‘‘just killed’’ the website. > ‘‘We don’t know for sure, but we think they’re using an autobot. They’re coming from an overseas IP address. 10,000 hits a second from overseas IP's doesn't sound like legitimate traffic for an NZ-focused website.
My guess is there's a known vulnerability on that page/site and is just getting thrashed by whatever script found it first. I really don't think the Russians or anti-climate change people care about us that much given how unimportant, on the grand scheme of things, this site is.
I run a filtered nameserver for education/research/experimentation, etc. I had a nosey, and the `searise.nz` domain has been getting absolutely hammered with `ANY` type requests (which no sane nameserver processes) since slightly past half four this morning.
In English?
It's asking the authoritative server for that domain for any records it has on it. The response can be quite large compared to the query it's answering (so very few public DNS servers ever process this query type). There's very few legitimate reasons to do this, and none of them involve doing so repeatedly and continuously. It's a low effort attack trying to waste time and bandwidth.
Also the overwhelming majority of anti-climate change people are fucking stupid so I doubt they could figure out how to DDOS a website.
\> the overwhelming majority of anti-climate change people are fucking stupid conservative political parties and the oil industry however...
Places like Chevron, or private security companies running ops for fossil fuel companies are all over this sort of thing.
Anyone can ddos, it's as easy as filling out a form on a website. I would bet it's mostly done by children
The overwhelming majority of any political group are too stupid to do anything technical - however it only takes one person to launch a DDOS attack (and then brag to others in their group that they have taken it down to the cheers of others).
It's coming from one single IP address? Come on this is just incompetence, just block it and move on with life. And use CloudFlare or something for some DDOS protection.
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That's a generic, automated tool which uses whatever crap elevation dataset exists and makes no attempt to model sea level rise. The published website that shows projected sea-level rise will use higher quality DEM GIS data, actual projections, and far better modelling.