[Labs-l] IP filtering put in place

[Faidon Liambotis]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0400, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
>Due to the large number of evil bots attempting to crawl the tools (and
>consuming large amounts of resources), I have had to filter large swaths
>of mainland China and a number of VPS hosts at the network level on the
>webserver.
>
>While I hope there will be very few (if any) legitimate users trying to
>connect from those ranges, please tell me if you hear of difficulties in
>using your tools; I will try to work out exceptions as needed.

Let's use ferm for this ( http://ferm.foo-projects.org/  -- we have a 
module in puppet already). I'd be happy to help.

Regards,
Faidon