[Scons-dev] Wiki down again

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 18:05:30 EDT 2015


Who to contact to get all the details related to the Pair problems
with DoS attacks?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:
> 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?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> anatoly t.
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