On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:08 AM, TJ Frazier wrote:

> On 10/24/2011 13:42, Dave Fisher wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dave Fisher wrote:
>> 
>>> I reported the current outage with extension and templates. There is a link 
>>> on the migration page.
>>> 
>> 
>> These are already back in service, it took less than 20 minutes once OSUOSL 
>> received the request.
>> 
>> THANKS!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>> 
> Dave,
> 
> FYI, there is apparently a bug in 3.3 (and earlier?) which is contributing to 
> beating on that server. It seems that OO.o checks for extension updates every 
> time it's loaded. with Quickstarter, that's once per re-boot; without it, 
> every time a "first" document is opened. AFAIK, the Extension Manager was 
> paying no attention to the schedule setting for product-update checking, as 
> set on the Options page.
> 
> In 3.4 Beta, I don't see this :-) but I do see a crash. :-(
> That suggests that some work was done in this area, which introduced a bug. 
> At least for me, writing a good issue is hard, and takes time. I will file 
> one on this eventually.
> -- 
> /tj/

I forwarded your comment to Lance Albertson at OSUOSL - you can reach him 
through the email I have quoted elsewhere.

>> Dave: If this is the case then this should be the most common URI requested
>> from that server. Is this something that you could provide? And, if
>> so, is it is possible to block or give an canned response.
>> 
>> Just curious, don't spend any time on this, I just want to know if a
>> recourse is possible.
>> 

> Lance:
> 
> If this is the URL I'm thinking of we've known about it for years. Its
> actually being hosted on our FTP infrastructure because it was getting
> so much traffic that it couldn't be hosted on the oooapps/oooapps2
> infrastructure. Lately I've had to also disable apache logs on the vhost
> because it was filling up our /var volume so fast and we didn't have
> enough space to do that.
> 
> You might verify the URL to me to be sure. If its not and still pointed
> at these two machines we may be able to force varnish to keep it cached.
> 
> -- 
> Lance Albertson
> Systems Administrator / Architect
> OSU Open Source Lab

I am thinking that we should distinguish between websites for general use by 
humans and web services that are expected by the application.

This is going down frequently, is it a self-inflicted DDOS? Do any forks or 
down-streams also query extensions.s.oo.o and/or templates.s.oo.o? 

Regards,
Dave

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