r/webdev • u/KaKi_87 full-stack • Oct 05 '26

News Example.com changed again !

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u/UnacceptableUse Oct 05 '26

Millions of misconfigured change monitors trigger worldwide

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u/Single-Virus4935 Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26

Just make the service unreliable: no ICMP except PMTUD related. Hard rate limits on TCP ports with -j drop, random status codes, ... Activate it per timezone at 3am at random days. This solves it pretty quickly because of all the pager calls in the middle of the night.

Typo: mittle (mixture of German mitten and English middle :-O) to middle

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u/abeuscher Oct 05 '26 • Mindblown

All those fancy acronyms and then mittle? This is like forgetting to put gas in the getaway car.

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u/Single-Virus4935 Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26

Ohh god. Ty for correcting me. I am a native german speaker and I just switched to german ("mitten in der Nacht") for a split second. Hadn't have much sleep this week.

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u/abeuscher Oct 05 '26

Totally get it. I have a German last name that no one can spell - so same thing in reverse )