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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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Internet Archive (@archive.org)

Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

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Would webcrawling look like a DDoS?
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  Heavy traffic is different from a DDoS, assuming the attacker is using standard DDoS techniques (refusing connection after confirmation from server)

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