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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 22 23:10:12 EDT 2013

One last self-reply for future readers who may judge Eli more by this one
interaction than his body of work, let me also add that Eli has been a huge
part of whatever success we've had with Racket. He positive influence
cannot be overstated.

Sorry again for being a jerk, Eli.

Robby



On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> 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?
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli
>>> Barzilay:
>>> >                     http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is
>>> Life!
>>> > _________________________
>>> >   Racket Developers list:
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>>
>>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>>> _________________________
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>>
>>
>
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