May: Infiniband and Botnets
Details
https://www.plug.org.nz/2025/05/may-infiniband-and-botnets/
## Date
7pm, Wednesday, 14 May 2025
## Topic 1/2: Infiniband Demonstration
Speaker: Stephen Worthington
Comparing 40 Gbit/s Infiniband and 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet between two PCs.
## Topic 2/2: Self-hosting, self-defense
Speaker: Tom Ryder
Through March and April this year, Tom’s cgit instance was getting hammered with requests by what looked like an enormous botnet of nearly three million IPs, each making only one or two requests, crippling the server and making conventional IP address blocking impossible. He’ll run through the whole sordid story, and talk about how to mitigate attacks on self-hosters by a new generation of threats.
## Venue
## Cost
$2 gold coin donation
Coffee and biscuits will be provided, but please feel free to bring along your own snacks and drinks.
## Agenda
- 7:00pm: Welcome (Nick Skarott)
- 7:10pm: Topic 1/2: Infiniband Demonstration (Stephen Worthington)
- 7:55pm: Tea and coffee break
- 8:05pm: General business (Nick Skarott)
- 8:10pm: Topic 2/2: Self-hosting, self-defense (Tom Ryder)
- 9:00pm: Doors close
May: Infiniband and Botnets