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by dzent 4780 days ago
this is really cool. although seeing a bunch of 503s from their geoip service. maybe hitting usage limits?
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mhashemi 4779 days ago
Backstory here: freegeoip.net has an hourly per-IP limit, so we distributed the load by doing the geolocation from client browsers. This borked freegeoip after many hours of Twitter/Ars Technica'ing.

It was a good thing Github got its storage servers back up; we're now running a local clone of freegeoip, as freegeoip.net smolders.

To freegeoip.net! May it rise again soon.

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mhashemi 4779 days ago
(N.B. for returning visitors: The sooner you force-refresh, the sooner freegeoip.net rises again.)
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innernette 4779 days ago
haha, yeah, we noticed freegeoip.net is effectively getting DDoS'd a few hours ago: https://twitter.com/mhashemi/status/333407761993957376

But it seemed to be holding at the time. Hopefully a local copy of the geodata will work better.

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