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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think a common nginx config is to just redirect malicious bots to some well-cached terrabyte file. I think hetzner hosts one iirc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

42kB ZIP file which decompresses into 4.5 PB.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

wouldn't it be trivial to defend against that with a hash check if the size matches?

though I guess it's possible to create your own that differs