Re: [Savannah-help-public] [gnu.org #391056] Re: Reviewing changes

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:26:50AM -0400, Ward Vandewege via RT wrote:
> > [yavor - Tue Mar 30 10:39:02 2010]:
> > 
> > Hossam Hossny wrote:
> > > This looks like something to drive savannah-hackers attention to
> > 
> > Actually no, the sysadmins are the ones who can fix this.
> > 
> > Some time ago, they added a size restriction in order to reduce
> > excessive bandwith resulting from large messages occasionally sent to
> > the lists.  This affected commits with huge diffs, and we agreed
> > subsequently to ignore messages exceeding the default size limit if
> > they originate from Savannah:
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2008-12/msg00000.html
> > 
> > Apparently this stopped working since at least few months, and I
> > intended to reraise the issue again.  (I'm adding the RT ticket number
> > to the Subject, which would hopefully reopen it again.)
> 
> Yes. We do that based on IP. All the IPs we have allocated to Savannah
> in that whitelist, except for the dom0 (colonialone). I didn't realize
> that you actually use the dom0 for production services like routing
> mail; that's something that's usually not a good idea... 
> 
> Anyway; I've added the colonialone IP to the whitelist, so this should
> now be fixed.
> 
> I would recommend you review the setup though; ideally the dom0 has *no*
> services that touch the outside world, leaving all that - and its
> inherent risks - to the various domUs.

Hi,

It's just a matter of routing internal IPs - just like for cvs->web
webservice that we fixed last month or so.

-- 
Sylvain