[Scons-dev] Wiki down again

Gary Oberbrunner garyo at oberbrunner.com
Thu Jun 4 14:01:00 EDT 2015


I don't have the time/energy/desire to continue working on a system that is
unsustainable for us, and seems to be getting more so.  If you'd like to
push on it, feel free.

-- Gary

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:25 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can they be more accurate where exactly the vulnerability is? IIRC we
> have 1.9.8 version (latest) installed, so if there is an exploit, the
> upstream should be notified too.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
> wrote:
> > Pair said it was an exploited attack on the wiki script itself this time,
> > which is worse.  Usually it's "just" excessive load due to spammers
> trying
> > to create pages, which is basically a DoS.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:13 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:56 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Wiki is down again due to invalid permissions.  I assume more DOS
> >> > attacks.
> >> > We should consider changing providers or something...
> >>
> >> First, let's have some proof that it is DOS attack. Do you have access
> >> to logs and
> >> statistics?
> >>
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