The @lwn web site is currently under the most intense scraper attack I have seen yet. 1.3M unique IP addresses within the last couple of hours, and it's not done yet. The work we have done on defenses appears to be paying off, though; the server is holding up reasonably well — so far.
...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...
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@corbet Hopefully this news about the NetNut residential proxy platform will help diminish the attacks against @lwn - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fbi-seizes-netnut-proxy-platform-popa-botnet/
When you first reported it, I shared it with a colleague involved with tracking residential proxies. They could see that lwn.net was showing up in some of the data they were getting about NetNut attacks.
