418 I'm a teapot
Many years ago, some person misconfigured their squid proxy and was hitting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonip.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonip.com</a> to the point my server at the time was turning green in the gills.<p>I started responding with 418 &quot;You are a tea kettle&quot; or something like that to those specific requests. The originating dev actually paid attention to their error messages and quickly resolved their config issue.<p>Fast forward to March this year. Some fucking numb nuts a-hole decided to add jsonip.com to an EXTREMELY widely used version of Dalvik&#x2F;Android software that gets deployed to hundreds of thousands or millions of devices.<p>Overnight my traffic levels increased by 300%. I&#x27;m a solo dev offering a free service for 12 years. That kind of increase in traffic costs me money I&#x27;ve never had to plan for.<p>I ended up switching to Cloudeflare to handle the load with a WAF filter on the offending android tvs and other devices.<p>However Cloudflare doesn&#x27;t properly route ipv4 address because &quot;ipv6 is cool so we only do that&quot; or something. Despite numerous support requests, that&#x27;s still <i>shmaybe</i> an enterprise level feature.<p>I apologize to any long time users of the service. This was completely unexpected after more than a decade. I&#x27;ve been trying different &quot;fixes&quot; for 2 months and have not resolved a way to block this garbage traffic and still provide the original services.<p>Yea sorry I turned this funny old internet post about the mit coffee pot into a thing happening to me.<p>But if for some ungodly reason you&#x27;re the dev or know who did  it, REMOVE MY SERVICE ADDRESS FROM YOUR OUT OF DATE FROM TV&#x2F;SMART DEVICE ANDROID code. You&#x27;re literally fucking killing me. I&#x27;ve literally spend dozens of hours trying to find out if this was a contribution to a public source repo. Nothing.<p>Based on the Dalvik user agent, I only found a handful of references in Chinese repos. But google search is so terrible these days, even those are false flags.<p>So I have <i>no</i> idea who to contact about this. Some dipshit on your team(s) decided to abuse a free service as though there isn&#x27;t a single human person behind it absorbing the costs and making sure it runs.