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

Eli: I'm sorry. I (obviously) didn't mean to send this message publicly and
it was also definitely sent in frustration (in lots of directions, not only
yours).

My apologies.

Robby



On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> 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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>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>
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