From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 19:32:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08B5106567B for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:32:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C408FC21 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:32:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so910546uge.37 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.10.18 with SMTP id n18mr9767618ugi.4.1213815916217; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.23.11 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a7894eb0806181205n92e32f8q34a7e054594d4f3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:05:16 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" To: Andrew In-Reply-To: <200806181804.22507.daeron@optushome.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200806181804.22507.daeron@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wiki.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:32:11 -0000 Simon is the main admin contact for the wiki. However, you might more fruitfully submit a bug report to the MoinMoin software developers, as this is just an open source software package that Simon maintains for us, and he is unlikely to have the time to track down and improve the surge detection you ran into. - Murray On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Andrew wrote: > Hi, > > Who is running the server at wiki.freebsd.org ? > > I was looking at something two days ago and half an hour ago I went to > refresh the page - > - their server responds > > "Warning: > You triggered the wiki's surge protection by doing too many requests in a > short time. > Please make a short break reading the stuff you already got. > When you restart doing requests AFTER that, slow down or you might get locked > out for a longer time!" > > > - - I think one request in two days should not trigger their "wiki's surge > protection" > > - - They of course then refuse any connection so it is impossible to find out > if they have an email contact. > > - I know about four years ago Wikipedia once did this, they had failed to > realise that come carriers (yes carriers, not just an ISP) decide to > implement a transparent proxy - - the result is the Wiki was blocking people > because one of the other 2.5 million Australian users of the Optus network > was also trying to access the wiki at the same time causing their wiki > software to decide there were too many requests coming from this one server > handling millions of customers. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >