Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Network Problem? DDoS? System? 2016-10-29

2016-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Savannah Hackers, Ruben saw that the problem was a web crawler that is crawling fast but not closing connections effectively becoming a SYN attack. It also hit www.gnu.org yesterday. Therefore he blocked it site wide since it would just move on to yet another web server after this. I have been

[Savannah-hackers-public] Network Problem? DDoS? System? 2016-10-29

2016-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ruben, It appears that Savannah is experiencing some type of network connectivity problem. Users have reported timeouts trying to access vcs. I can confirm the timeouts seen here too. Plus Nagios is latched in failure. The Savannah web frontend seems okay. Things appear to be a problem