[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