I would also appreciate an answer to this question. My calls to the
Search API are failing because of circular redirection, and
curl http://twitter.com
returns nothing at all from my production server, which seems like a
sign that its IP has been blocked.
My app works fine from my dev box.
-jonathan
On Aug 6, 1:35 pm, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chad,
>
> I know it's a little late in asking, but should we switch off cron
> jobs that make a lot of API calls while this DoS is going on, or while
> you are recovering from it?
>
> I don't want my IP addresses to be blocked because they are making a
> lot of calls! I've seen in the past that Ops lay down carpet bombing
> with cluster munitions when under attack.
>
> Will it help you to recover if we switched off the cron jobs?
>
> Right now most of my connections are just being refused.
>
> Do you guys at least check against the list of white listed IP
> addresses before you block an IP address in times like these?
>
> Will there be innocent bystanders caught in the cross-fire again?
>
> This is the kind of info that we developers need...
>
> Dewald
