[racket-dev] Pinging BYU people!! (was: DOS attack on planet?)

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun Sep 22 17:26:44 EDT 2013

(Note that instead of the apache rule I now switched to a firewall
rule, so it won't even get 403 responses now.)


40 minutes ago, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> Update: bringing it down for a few minutes didn't help, and the
> offending process continues its merciless traffic.  I've added a
> temporary rule that effectively blacklists planet access from that IP
> address.  (Apologies in case that's a shared machine.)  All I see now,
> are failed attempts to get "/servlets/pkg-info.ss" (which are answered
> with a 403 to that IP).
> 
> Can someone at BYU look into this?

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