[racket-dev] unable to git fetch, or ssh -v to git.racket-lang.org ?

On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:19 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> 10 hours ago, John Clements wrote:
>> This... doesn't look like something on my end?
>> [...]
> 
> Did you check if you were blacklisted?

Wow... I see that thread now, from 2011.  I'll check it out. Many thanks. 

For those of you in the future that chance upon this thread, I'm going to paste the apparently relevant text from Dec 9, 2011:

In Dec. 2011, Eli wrote:

> As many of you know, there's a common problem where you make a mistake
> in connecting to the git server and get blacklisted which means that
> you have to ask me to remove the entry.  As a solution for such cases,
> I've hacked a tool that allows you to remove an IP address from the
> denyhosts ban -- you can access it at http://internal.racket-lang.org/
> -- the "Release an ssh-blocked IP" entry.
> 
> (This is safe since it requires that you have password access to the
> internal server, and you can only name the IP you want to remove which
> is harmless if you can't get the list of denied hosts.)


Thanks!

John