7 ms·
this is really cool. although seeing a bunch of 503s from their geoip service. maybe hitting usage limits?
by dzent 13y ago
this is really cool. although seeing a bunch of 503s from their geoip service. maybe hitting usage limits?
- innernette 13y agohaha, yeah, we noticed freegeoip.net is effectively getting DDoS'd a few hours ago: https://twitter.com/mhashemi/status/333407761993957376 https://twitter.com/mhashemi/status/333407761993957376 But it seemed to be holding at the time. Hopefully a local copy of the geodata will work better.
- mhashemi 13y agoBackstory here: freegeoip.net has an hourly per-IP limit, so we distributed the load by doing the geolocation from client browsers. This borked freegeoip after many hours of Twitter/Ars Technica'ing. It was a good thing Github got its storage servers back up; we're now running a local clone of freegeoip, as freegeoip.net smolders. To freegeoip.net! May it rise again soon.
- mhashemi 13y ago(N.B. for returning visitors: The sooner you force-refresh, the sooner freegeoip.net rises again.)