Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Anyone have any news on Savannah?

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 22:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > I haven't been able to reach the Savannah website for most of the
> > day.
> > Things like the Git service are available but the website is not.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  It appears that some agent was pounding on
> the web site.  There were max processes of apache2 web server running
> and nothing making progress.  I killed all and restarted the web
> server and things seem to be functional now.
> 
> It looks like the fail2ban dynamic rules were not transferred over to
> the new system.  We have some custom rules there that help block
> abusive agents.  I'll get those set up on the system.

Thanks Bob.

Unfortunately it seems to be down / under attack again this morning :(

Don't people have better things to do with their lives?  Sigh.