Cloudron Demo

[User123456]

Hello,
the demo is not available, or if you call it is immediately offline

[User123456]

looks like there is either a problem or there is an attack on the instance.

[girish]

Some person with the ip 212.92.231.206 is spamming reboot requests Not sure what they get out of this childish behavior

[subven]

@girish said:

212.92.231.206

Thats actually from UA/Mykolaiv, an active war zone which was bombed just yesterday. Perhaps someone simply let their AI run wild, which isn't such an unlikely scenario these days.

Regardless of this very strange coincidence, it should be possible to block a few more of Cloudrons admin endpoints that could impair the functionality of the demo instance.

[necrevistonnezr]

@girish said:

Some person with the ip 212.92.231.206 is spamming reboot requests Not sure what they get out of this childish behavior

It’s pretty well-known behavior. Non-commercial request-spamming (e.g., low-level DoS/flooding) is typically process-driven rather than goal-driven. The combination of arousal (sensation seeking), gratification (instant feedback), and low deterrence (low perceived risk) trigger the behavior, even without monetary or investigative objectives.

We all know the gratification aspect from „social“ media —> „Likes“ and „Views“ fuel the whole economy.

e.g.: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1089/1094931041291295

[robi]

Fail2ban failed to ban

[girish]

I have disabled some of this functionality in the demo now.

[Teiluj]

In passing, I noticed a few times in a recent past the cloudron demo server name and footer having been changed to some unpleasant (some might say offensive) wording.
Not sure how you want to approach this - just though I'd mention.

[girish]

@Teiluj yeah, I have noticed that too. We don't want to lock it too much either (app location, footer, usernames, group names, etc - lots of scope to put offensive things).