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980 points nkcmr | 2 comments | | HN request time: 1.431s | source
1. tofukid ◴[] No.27418417[source]
What qualifies as “abuse” for a website that simply returns your IP? I don’t get it.

You made a free service, and then lots of people started abusing it by... using the service?

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2. iudqnolq ◴[] No.27419180[source]
Giant amounts of traffic (order of billions of requests per day) from a small number of boxes. It clearly doesn't get them anything (if your IP isn't changing multiple times per second you'd be better off caching, if it is you're probably a moron), so it's reasonable to suspect it's either a mistake or an attempt to take the site offline.