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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 03:46:05 JST Chris Trottier

   • Kainoa
   Time for an update about https://calckey.social.
   
   I’m posting this account from here because I can’t post it from my main account—because calckey.social is down.
   
   Why? Because suddenly, we got inundated by 18,000 messages in our queue—and this has been increasing by the minute.
   
   @kainoa believes the server may be under a spam attack.
   
   We’re looking into the problem, and in a few hours, we hope to get more engineers on this.
   
   My apologies that service is currently denied.
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     Robert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀 (rrgeorge@raphus.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 04:31:53 JST Robert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀

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     • Kainoa

     @atomicpoet @kainoa Mastodon instances were hit with an attack a few months ago that behaved like that. It was caused by a series of domains with infinite subdomains posting mentions to others causing a recursion attack. See: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21977

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     Kainoa (kainoa@calckey.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 04:31:53 JST Kainoa

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     • Robert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀

     @rrgeorge@raphus.social @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org thankfully calckey already has mitigations for similar attacks.