Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
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Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
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Re: Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
#2These requests originated from over 200 IP addresses – almost all owned by an ISP for a particular province in China. The confirmation emails for this volume of requests overwhelmed our email service. As a result, many arXiv users may not have received their daily emails. And other users may not have received their confirmation emails for registering accounts, or legitimate email change requests.
this should be easy to block, no? just 200 out of millions
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#3Who would have the incentive to bring arxiv down?
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#4> We will shortly be reaching out to the abuse desk of the affected ISP for assistance.
Does anyone here have experience working with an ISP in abuse cases like this one, specially a Chinese ISP?
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#5These requests originated from over 200 IP addresses – almost all owned by an ISP for a particular province in China. The confirmation emails for this volume of requests overwhelmed our email service. As a result, many arXiv users may not have received their daily emails. And other users may not have received their confirmation emails for registering accounts, or legitimate email change requests. this should be easy…
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#6A million password resets is shockingly low for a DDOS, could this have been an university assignment gone wrong? I can imagine some clueless dean ordering all their engineering grads to submit research to arXiv. If they have 100-200K students, a single poorly written script to link the institution's SSO with automatically created arXiv accounts could easily overwhelm the system.
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#7Does the State Dept get involved in these cases? Surely China has responsibility over this ISP.
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#8A million password resets is shockingly low for a DDOS, could this have been an university assignment gone wrong? I can imagine some clueless dean ordering all their engineering grads to submit research to arXiv. If they have 100-200K students, a single poorly written script to link the institution's SSO with automatically created arXiv accounts could easily overwhelm the system.
What school has 200k engineering students?
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#9Who would have the incentive to bring arxiv down?
- for the lulz
- revenge for rejected paper
- badly written scraping script
Re: Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
#10A million password resets is shockingly low for a DDOS, could this have been an university assignment gone wrong? I can imagine some clueless dean ordering all their engineering grads to submit research to arXiv. If they have 100-200K students, a single poorly written script to link the institution's SSO with automatically created arXiv accounts could easily overwhelm the system.
What school has 200k engineering students?
"poorly written" could easily remove the "engineering" qualifier.