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phdelightful • yesterday at 10:41 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

I just put Anubis in front of my self-hosted forge this morning because AmazonBot had helped itself to 750 GiB (!) of traffic to my public repos this month!

At least, it claimed to be AmazonBot…

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Bender • yesterday at 11:27 PM

Are they in this space? [1] One could map the ranges into a web daemon and rate limit them or just 'ip route add blackhole ${cidr}' each cidr block.

[1] - https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

userbinator • today at 3:04 AM

At least, it claimed to be AmazonBot

It's good that you mentioned this; smear campaigns are definitely not a new thing, and I suspect a lot of this DDoS'ing that's going on is a plot to accelerate towards Big Tech's authoritarian dystopia. Basically extortion.

faangguyindia • today at 5:05 AM

i see the bots with user agent claude bot, using AWS IPs.

I've also seen Google bots with AWS IP ranges. You gotta look at their ASN/ISP/ORG

nathanmills • yesterday at 10:46 PM

Do you have a robots.txt?

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