Hi,

I had to disable federation due to abuse that created heavy resource usage and outages in the recent weeks. Situation seems to be stabilised at the moment.

If you want/need some homeserver whitelisted - please comment, write a message or ping me on matrix @saint:group.lt.

In general - if you have issues with matrix - don’t be shy ;)

  • I eat wordsOPMA
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    9 months ago

    I am not sure if that is related, but technically Matrix uses a different protocol from ActivityPub, so it had to be targeted specifically

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      9 months ago

      @saint I know it’s different. I was just wondering if it was the same person doing a separate attack at the same time. I see one or two other Matrix servers saying they’re suffering attacks around the same time, I didn’t check more than that though. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again!

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        9 months ago

        from the logs it would seem that synapse went down not due to share volume of traffic, but special malformed usernames - so it seems a different pattern was used (if it is was an attack)