Current status: The LVFS is getting pillaged by an AI bot that's coming from *hundreds* of different IPs with a user agent of "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Chrome/91.0.4472.124".
I'm impressed the LVFS handled the load spike, but I'm also planning to add support for blocking by ASN today...
@hughsie Time to setup https://anubis.techaro.lol/
I'm not terribly sure how; the LF uses Terraform to deploy onto AWS. @monsieuricon is this something other LF projects have done?
@hughsie £10 says those IPs are coming from residential networks across the planet, so good luck blocking by ASN...
@ross I think it's actually some Alibaba datacenter: https://www.ip2location.com/as45102
Interestingly, the "poison pill" firmware seems to have (accidentally?) stopped the onslaught -- as soon as the IP address gets the 429 status code it completely stops -- and very soon after that (just a few minutes) all the other IP addresses on the ASN just stopped too.