TCP/IP: SYN flood attack on the RTFM server, and “Hacker News hug of death”0 (0)
2 January 2026
Got an alert from the monitoring system this morning, indicating that the blog is down: Well, I thought: another one DDoS, not the first time. Investigating the issue I went to the Cloudflare admin, enabled the Under Attack Mode, and started the investigation. Checked the requests: I think, okay, it’s simple – requests are coming… Read More »
