[okfn-help] Wiki: Surge protection

Sun Feb 20 09:22:27 GMT 2011

Hi Nils

Surge protection again

at

Feb, 20th, 10:18 CET
http://wiki.okfn.org/

Sorry about the public ip - cant find it out right now.

Daniel

On 18.02.2011, at 14:41, Nils Toedtmann wrote:

> If this happens again please tell us time of the event and your public
> IP address at that time (e.g. http://nils.toedtmann.net/ip/). We then
> have a look at the wiki logs. /n
> 
> 
> On 18/02/11 09:40, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> Very odd. Could possibly be because we have wiki.okfn.org behind a
>> cache and hence non-logged in users get the same ip and hence trigger
>> surge protection. However squid sets x-forwarded-for and according to
>> [1] moinmoin respects this. If you log in this problem should
>> definitely go away ...
>> 
>> Rufus
>> 
>> [1]: http://moinmo.in/HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection
>> 
>> On 17 February 2011 20:43, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Today I got this on wiki.okfn.org, after hitting the "login" button the first time of the day:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Surge protection
>>>> 
>>>> 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!
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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