Re: [racket-dev] [racket] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September

2013-09-22 Thread Eric Hanchrow
My wife and I will be in Boston a day early (Friday). Does anyone have a must-see touristy suggestion for us? On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Asumu Takikawa as...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: RacketCon 2013 -- We are pleased to announce that (third RacketCon) will take place on September

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September

2013-09-22 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Things I really enjoy in Boston: - The Museum of Fine Arts, right across the street from Northeastern - The Freedom Trail, a self-guided walking tour of many historic Boston sights This goes through the North End, which is a nice place to walk around all on its own. - The Boston Harbor Islands

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September

2013-09-22 Thread Greg Hendershott
+1 to all of Sam's suggestions. I'd also add the waterfront as being a nice area (relatively new to Boston). If you head to the water from Quincy Market, there's the Aquarium. Then you can turn right and walk along the water through Rowes Wharf and to the old rotating bridge that's pedestrian

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] [ANN] RacketCon 2013: 29 September

2013-09-22 Thread Greg Hendershott
p.s. The walk I described is mostly parallel to the Rose Kennedy Greenway that Sam mentioned, just a block apart, so you could head out one way and back the other. On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Greg Hendershott greghendersh...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to all of Sam's suggestions. I'd also add

[racket-dev] DOS attack on planet?

2013-09-22 Thread Andrei Mikhailov
Sorry if I am rising a false alarm. I noticed that there is a massive download of my package called bystroTeX : http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=bystroTeX.pltowner=amkhlv All the downloads are of the (old) version 1.6 What is going on? Is it possible to figure out who downloads

Re: [racket-dev] DOS attack on planet?

2013-09-22 Thread Robby Findler
I don't think that the planet server itself doesn't keep enough information to say much about this, but the requests come via apache so there might be more information in a log file at that level that Eli might be able to tell us about. I do see lots of requests coming in for packages, tho. In

Re: [racket-dev] DOS attack on planet?

2013-09-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
I just looked into that, and it seems that there's something bad going on with some machine at BYU which started yesterday. (Ping: Jay.) The offending traffic comes from fltr5.byu.edu, at a very high rate. The new log file for the week had started at 2013-09-22 03:40 local time (about 12.5 hours

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

2013-09-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
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

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

2013-09-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
(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

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

2013-09-22 Thread Jay McCarthy
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,

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

2013-09-22 Thread Robby Findler
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

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

2013-09-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
50 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: Next time, feel free to follow the directions on internal.racket-lang.org. I have no practical way to know whether it's actually one of your machines. (I did check that it's not an IP that is in our DNS.) Now that you've turn off its access, rather than

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

2013-09-22 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 50 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: Next time, feel free to follow the directions on internal.racket-lang.org. I have no practical way to know whether it's actually one of your machines. (I did check that it's not an IP

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

2013-09-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
A few minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: In retrospect, I guess it's not so obvious that the package server contacts the old server regularly to build the compatibility version packages. Is this the package server?? The IP I have for that is 128.187.105.226, which is different from the IP

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

2013-09-22 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: A few minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: In retrospect, I guess it's not so obvious that the package server contacts the old server regularly to build the compatibility version packages. Is this the package server?? The

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

2013-09-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
Just now, Jay McCarthy wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: In any case, if it is the package server through some other machine, then it's best to change it so it comes from the actual server. I don't know what's going on with that. It's in a

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

2013-09-22 Thread Robby Findler
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,