Re: [pydotorg-www] Help accessing wiki.python.org

2015-01-07 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 7. January 2015 01.59.56 Robert Lugg wrote: Hey all, I am having a heck of a time accessing this wiki. I do have an account and can log in to www.python.org as well as on pypi. Not sure exactly what help to ask for L. Basically, login on a page asks for name, password, and

[pydotorg-www] Wiki slowness

2015-01-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I've had a look around on the system at what might be causing the slowness of the wiki. The number of used inodes was a bit high, so I ran some maintenance tools on the wikis to reduce them. A restart of Apache didn't help much. The processes went straight to 100% again. I then ran a log trace

Re: [pydotorg-www] I'd like to edit OutOfPrintBooks page

2015-01-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Added. Happy editing ! On 27.12.2014 20:20, Luis de la Orden wrote: Hello: I'd like to edit in the wiki, so I could start from a non-critical page: OutOfPrintBooks (https://wiki.python.org/moin/OutOfPrintBooks) I have seen some dead links and it is not updated since 2008. This two

Re: [pydotorg-www] Wiki slowness

2015-01-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
One thing I can say is that some adversaries are very good at coordinating an attack from a huge pool of IP addresses (e.g. a botnet), at a low rate per IP address. This type of attack is hard to detect. Presumably each bot in the net is used to attack many different services simultaneously. On

Re: [pydotorg-www] Wiki slowness

2015-01-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
This sounds like a serious and lasting infrastructure issue. Dropbox is hit by similar attacks all the time. The hackers are likely looking to match large databases of email addresses (think many, many millions) against large databases of easy passwords; if they find a match they are likely to

Re: [pydotorg-www] [PSF-Members] Why are we having people register at python.org

2015-01-07 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 01/06/15 09:30, Steve Holden wrote: Since it appears you are my only supporter, I feel my energies would be better spent devoted to acquiring a livable pension before I hit 70. Let's see what the board announces after its next meeting. I think you'd find you have more than one supporter,