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by gruez 45 days ago
>cloudflare hosts the attackers.

No, they provide DDoS protection, but the actual servers are likely hosted on some random VPS somewhere.

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When I do a lookup on beamed.st I get an IP in 2606:4700::/32 which is currently advertised from AS13335 "Cloudflare, Inc."

Edit: I now realize gruez meant the beamed.st site itself is behind Cloudflare DDoS, completing the loop to explaining what Cloudflare's involvement was :).

Yes that looks the same whether they provide DDoS protection or host.
Ahhh, I completely misread who the DDoS protection was being provided to. Must be a slow day for me :). Thanks!