A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

Post by mint2 » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 3:13 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #361

pera wrote: post #168

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I just had an idea: if you control your own name server I believe you could use a BIND view to send all their own traffic to themselves based on the source address. By the way, if someone discovers how to trigger this issue it would be easy to use it as a DOS pseudo-botnet.

You could just probably send an HTTP redirect to their own site, no need to play with DNS for that

Post by dan15 » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 9:58 PM UTC

hirako2000 wrote: post #398

dan15 wrote: post #327

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FB uses Office365 for email. It was on-premise Exchange many many years ago, but moved "to the cloud" a while back.

Feels odd to read Facebook uses office365/exchange for emails. they haven't built their fsuite yet, I thought they would simply promote Facebook messenger internally. I'm only half joking.

Post by greggyb » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

dungdang wrote: post #412

greggyb wrote: post #396

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Legal document is a tricky phrase to use. "No trespassing" signs are usually considered sufficient to justify prosecution for trespassing. If the sign is conspicuously placed, it does not usually matter if you actually see the sign or not. I am not as familiar with law around accessing computer systems, but I imagine that given some of the draconian enforcement we've seen in the past that a robots.txt should be suffi…

the no tresspassing sign does not mean i can't yell at you from the street 'tell me your life story.' which you are free to ignore.