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

It is like he is trying to justify his existence while he is on his way out
the door which seems strange. IIUC, we cannot afford $80/90k or whatever it
was he costs anyway.

So I have no idea what to think about his message.

Robby


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Next time, feel free to follow the directions on
> internal.racket-lang.org. Now that you've turn off its access, rather
> than just logging in and killing it, I can't test and see what the
> underlying problem was. Let me know when you have turn traffic back
> on.
>
> Jay
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > (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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