#sysadmins #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #selfhosting questions re: DNS...

Has anyone hosting their own instance seen a massive increase in DNS queries to their domain.

I don’t host my own DNS, and my DNS provider can’t give me logs of requests, so I can’t even check which subdomain it might relate to.

I’m not sure what I could do to avoid it – the overage is not a large amount of money, but it’s recurrent and annoying, and started when I started this instance.

I changed the TTL to 2 weeks and it didn’t make a difference.

I’m not sure what else to check.

Can anyone recommend a DNS provider I could use temporarily that I could get logs from?

I don’t want domain hosting or web hosting, or masto hosting.

Thanks!

#sysadmins #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #selfhosting questions re: DNS...

Has anyone hosting their own instance seen a massive increase in DNS queries to their domain.

I don’t host my own DNS, and my DNS provider can’t give me logs of requests, so I can’t even check which subdomain it might relate to.

I’m not sure what I could do to avoid it – the overage is not a large amount of money, but it’s recurrent and annoying, and started when I started this instance.

I changed the TTL to 2 weeks and it didn’t make a difference.

I’m not sure what else to check.

Can anyone recommend a DNS provider I could use temporarily that I could get logs from?

I don’t want domain hosting or web hosting, or masto hosting.

Thanks!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116007434602576018

Oh nice, one of the updates:

"Shorten caching of quote posts pending approval"

#mastodon #MastoAdmins #fediverse #QuotePosts

So, pretty gross scraping going on by nodebb.org.

They’re scraping some content from here, and posting it on their website as if it were posts by users there.

Ick.

I link here to “my” user profile on their site, which is just a rehash of my profile here, and it has 8 of my posts. Not many, but I find this highly distasteful.

You can try to see if your “user” profile is there, but I’m not sure if it pulls it across upon the URL being requested, or only if it’s already scraped your account here, so beware.

Maybe block first then check (and please let me know if you find it has perhaps previously found your account).

I can see one of @ApplesauceFluxes' boosts of another account has made it over there, too. So it’s not just your own posts it might be scraping!

In fact, I can see whole conversations there!

Looks like most of the scraping in relation to my posts/replies/boosts has happened over the last month, and is certainly *not* comprehensive in that timeframe.

I’m going to block the relevant domain (community.nodebb.org) here, and report them to the admin of my alt account asking they do the same.

Hat tip to @vga256 for bringing this to my attention.

Spread the word, I’m seeing many instances’ users over there, and likely none (or very, *very* few) have any idea it’s going on.

#MastoAdmins #MastoAdmin #FediScrapers #NoScrapers

https://community.nodebb.org/user/europlus@social.europlus.zone

Have there been any statements from fediverse admins on how they'd handle certain people, organizations, or government agencies that have generated controversy on Bluesky in the past, or, say, today?

#FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #fediverse

#MastoAdmins Anyone know what the point of the "SHA-256" hash for each server on the "Moderated Servers" list is for?

Merry Christmas to all the #MastoAdmins who keep the lights on here. And to all the people who contribute dunsa to pay the bills for infrastructure and coffee.

Merry Christmas to all the #MastoAdmins who keep the lights on here. And to all the people who contribute dunsa to pay the bills for infrastructure and coffee.

🦉 PSA - with earthstream.social disappearing I almost lost Owls in Towels, but they are reconstituted at @owlsintowels

Recommend #FediAdmins / #MastoAdmins purge the earthstream.social domain, no self-destruct was sent as far as I can tell.

https://fedi.wrm.sr/instance/earthstream.social