[FFmpeg-devel] mailing list issues today

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

At around 8 o clock today there was heavy load on gitweb from the following
IP ranges
27.44.204.*|27.44.125.*|27.44.122.*|14.17.95.*|14.17.85.*|120.233.114.*|120.233.118.*

This caused eventually some process from our mail handling pipeline to be
killed and not automatically restarting.
Ive restarted the affected process once i noticed this a few hours ago.

ATM it seems some mails are still missing, i hope they will all appear
within the next day or so

If any server admins have seen similar, then suggestions to harden apache
and gitweb are welcome.
The user agent fields on these requests looked normal
And because these came from many IP ranges our per IP limit in mod_qos
did not stop it adequently

thx

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