Hello! I’m working on my home server trying to get some networking problems solved, and out of nowhere my nginx is suddenly being hit from this instance tens of times per second. I’m at several thousand lines in just 10 minutes. I’m still new to networking stuff, trying to learn what I can. Is this normal?!

Edit: For some background, I used to roll my own instance, but as I wasn’t very comfortable yet with network security and all that I pulled it down. This was maybe a year and a half ago. I get lots of lemmy instances looking to check in, since they think my instance still exists, but this is a bit much…

Edit 2 to fix the photo

Edit 3: I’m reading that returning 410 Gone should tell the instance that mine is permanently gone, so I’m going to set that up in nginx. According to pull #5256, since I’m returning a 4xx error more than 3 days it should have already stopped.

Update: programming.dev seems to be respecting the 410 pretty quick! I installed Grafana to finally see some network stats, and hopefully lemmy.world and .ml will respect it as well in the next couple days (Stats started recording when the container went live, and .dev stopped pretty quick afterwards)

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    1·
    7 days ago

    It’s posting to your inbox. Were you able to have a look at your database? My bet is that you’re getting synced with the network I.e posts and comments.

    • MrQuallzinOP
      1·
      7 days ago

      Well, it was trying to post to the inbox, which hasn’t existed for a year and a half now.

      • Sir. Haxalot@nord.pubEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        That is probably part of the problem. My guess is that for some reason programming.dev is trying to send a backlog of events since the time your instance was shut down. This doesn’t seem like something that should happen though, as I’d expect Lemmy to mark an instance as Gone and stop trying to send events after a while.