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I just noticed this DNS graph. The web site I took over in 2019. It's the busiest web site I have. But I really think the huge upswing in #DNS traffic is related to #AI bot scrapers. I have been struggling so hard just to make them go away. My bandwidth, compute, and web service are not for them. They are not welcome. They do not care.
Literally doubling month on month.
Now, I recently made changes to the DNS for that zone. And I made some screw-ups when I did it. So, I temporarily¹ set the TTL on the NS records to 600 seconds. I kept screwing them up and needing to change them.
Fixing the NS records this morning definitely had a benefit. Yesterday was 325,336 queries. Today was 254,492. So again, some of this is on me. But that whole 13-year DNS graph with a huge surge in the last 2 years is not all me. Stuff has changed.
¹ I remembered this morning when I was like "WTF do I have so much DNS traffic!?"
Ok this one’s on me.
I stood up a test website and I used bunny net as my CDN. The url was predictable. Test dot domain dot net. Well, somebody found it and just hammered it. 1.3M requests in a week. I probably account for about 200 of those. I figured it out when the VM’s disk ran out of space from logging it all.
Total bandwidth 27.81 GB
Cached bandwidth 33.32 MB
Requests served 1,380,802
Cache hit rate 1.25%
How it started, how it's going.
For those who don't want to bother reading the screenshots, the first says December 11, 2025: #Disney to invest ONE BEEEELION dollars in #OpenAI to use its #Sora to algorithmically shit on a century of art.
The second press release dated yesterday March 24, 2026, says OpenAI has canned the entire Sora app, not even telling Disney before they did it. Also, that "three year deal" they announced in December apparently hadn't actually closed, no money had changed hands, and so the whole thing was vaporware for about 3 and half months.
Disney has only had 2 other press releases since, so if you go to their press releases page, this release is the 3rd on the list. I assume they'll take it down soon?
The word cloud for Sunday, 22 Mar 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 8697 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: sinbad: 186, goldenvoyageofsinbad: 166, really: 82, time: 76, kazaam: 73, little: 69, tom: 66, golden: 65, koura: 64, will: 63,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, wrongsinbad, thegoldenvoyageofsinbad1973, goldenvoyage1974, goldenvoyage1973, sinbad1973, goldenvoyage1974, thegoldenvoyageofsinbad, and the hashtag monsterdon.
A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 22 Mar 2026. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 105.0 minutes long. There were 3046 posts during the event with an average of 29.01 posts per minute.
The busiest moment was at 94:00 from the start with 51 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 90:00 from the start with 16 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.
