Can’t post images because they’re too big so here’s imgur: https://imgur.com/a/Fm52ZTB
Edit: lemmy.ml and lemmy.world seem to have come back, I’m just a bit worried that it’s another one of those hacks.
Edit 2: Most of those I’ve tried came back. reddthat.com and sh.itjust.works seems to still be down
sh.itjust.works admin via matrix:
“looks like a bunch of instances are under attack at the moment”
Not an attack.
See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3649 and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3165
Here is the reason for lemmy.fmhy.ml
https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za
- .ml domains (the one fmhy.ml was on) has been reclaimed by the Mali government
- Freenom is also being sued by Meta (and has been for the past few months)
- Both of these have resulted in fmhy, along with a lot of other domains, to be unresolvable
- Changing domains will cause us to have to refederate and start mostly from scratch (although we might be able to transfer posts and users)
And it seem to getting worse for lemmy fmhy
https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hg4dquksvbha67h
- All services, except Lemmy, is up and running again via the new domain: https://fmhy.net
- Lemmy itself will require a significant database cleanup to get users transferred, posts and communities may not be possible
- Cleanup will have to be done either manually or with a custom script
And now to answer some common questions I’ve seen floating around:
- Why is lemmy.ml not affected? WE DON’T KNOW. My assumption is that it’s popular (or lucky enough) to not be affected by this change. The only difference between our two domains is that lemmy.ml doesn’t use CF, and AFAIK, multiple other domains (with and without cf) are still unreachable.
- Why can’t you just change the domain? That’s not how federation works. Most services (including Mastodon and Lemmy) do not support changing URL properly, as doing so could potentially break the whole network.
- Why is it taking so long to get back up? Not all staff members have access to the server, CF, or domain registrar. Not to mention that this is a complicated task that requires a lot of effort, and one that we didn’t even know we had to do until the following morning. (We were under the assumption that the .ml TLD didn’t just explode.)
What is Freenom and why are we supposed to know what that is?
Not saying it was a coordinated attack (per your edit), but anything popular is a prime target for various types of attacks, especially easier stuff like DDoS. But with every attack, the developers and various admins/owners of instances learn something new and how to mitigate it. So while it’s annoying, it’s just as much a blessing as it is a curse - better to patch things quickly than leave an exploitable hole open for who knows how long with access to who knows what.
Yeah, for me too. Seems like whole fediverse has issues, problems with loading posts etc. at least for me
I had that too. Tried multiple instances myself. Nice username btw.
It seem like it’s a bug which spread through more than a ddos.
Restarting the backend of an instance should fix the problem otherwise web users could try clearing the cookies
I was facing issues with lemmy.world too, now seems to be okay
Another DDOS? There’s been a few of them lately
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Lemmy.world was only down for ten minutes
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That’s the problem with the fediverse. They tend to go down a lot. Same thing happens with mastodon servers.