is gnu.org accessible for you?
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Hi,
for couple of days I'm getting "Too many requests" error on gnu.org
Just wondering is it ddos attack?
Is it working for you?
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It is right now, dunno about when you logged in.
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The FSF recently needed to deal with a number of badly behaving bots, resulting in Denial of Service. Maybe this can result in issues sometimes. Some explanations at https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots.
"Our infrastructure has been under attack since August 2024. Large Language Model (LLM) web crawlers have been a significant source of the attacks, and as for the rest, we don't expect to ever know what kind of entity is targeting our sites or why."
@Avron
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots.
thanks, this is article explains everything in details
From the same FSF blog post: "Some of the abuse is not unique to us, and it seems that the health of the web has some serious problems right now."
This felt like a polite understatement, so I followed the link behind it and ended up reading Drew DeVault's take on the topic:
"All of my sysadmin friends are dealing with the same problems. I was asking one of them for feedback on a draft of this article and our discussion was interrupted to go deal with a new wave of LLM bots on their own server."
The health of the web has some serious problems right now indeed. Glad all Trisquel websites are up and running.
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One organization I am a member of had to deal with such kind of problems on its software forge, with several millions of IP addresses allocated to Alibaba. I read exactly the same thing on mastodon from another organization (same target, software forge, and same source).