Have you, or anyone, tried legal action? Surely you have some amount of
reasonable suspicion that this is a proxy network, and surely if OpenAI
can be forced to log all conversations, then the operator of a proxy
network can be forced to log who is making connections to a certain
site. You can then press charges against this person for DDoS.
On 9/07/25 22:00, Brandon Martin via NANOG wrote:
Everything folks have mentioned was my functional assumption. It
seems unlikely that they'd have that much IP space under their direct
control, and if they did, it would be easier to block using WHOIS
info, origination details, etc.
Now, as mentioned, there are some botnets out there that are somewhat
above board in that the controlled endpoints are voluntarily doing the
stuff they're hired to do. They may even get paid a little. It's
doubtful that the owner of the endpoint really understands the
ramifications of their participation, but at least they're otherwise
consenting and an economic beneficiary.
Of course, as we all know, many or most botnets are made up primarily
or essentially entirely of compromised endpoints. Now we're in "just
flat out illegal" territory. Lovely.
It took far less shady action than this to get (albeit very weak and
not particularly timely) US federal legislation on email SPAM. I'm
not holding my breath for this to get addressed any time soon, though.
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