[pydotorg-www] Wiki slowness

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 08.01.2015 16:33, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 07.01.2015 22:46, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> One thing I can say is that some adversaries are very good at coordinating
>> an attack from a huge pool of IP addresses (e.g. a botnet), at a low rate
>> per IP address. This type of attack is hard to detect. Presumably each bot
>> in the net is used to attack many different services simultaneously.
> 
> What's strange is that there are only few actual POST requests
> trying to log in or create new accounts and all the GET requests
> are missing the user/password parameters. Doesn't look like
> bots trying passwords.
> 
> Perhaps we just got slashdot'ted (is that still the right term ;-))
> and browsers are preloading links.

The VM now runs on 4GB RAM and even though it still gets those
strange requests, the load is a lot lower.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jan 08 2015)
>>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ...  http://www.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter ...       http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________

::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::::

   eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH  Pastor-Loeh-Str.48
    D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg
           Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611
               http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/