August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem

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Even known-safe traffic, explicitly allowed through our server’s firewall, was getting dropped. However, once the DDoS event subsides and attack traffic is clear, the system will automatically remove the block and restore normal HTTPS traffic. Since it’s pure trash traffic, something like Anubis won’t help.

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