[Labs-l] (Update) HTTP on tools.wmflabs.org temporarily disabled

[Marc A. Pelletier]

More news:

It turns out the DDOS was inadvertent and caused by an ill-considered
addition to several projects rather than malice: a script hosted on tool
labs intended to tie Wikidata to search results was made to load on
every page view rather than just upon searching, causing every hit to a
page on the projects to cause the user's client to connect to tool labs.

Obviously, tool labs does not scale well to that many requests.  :-)

It will probably take several hours for things to return to normal as we
hunt down and remove those loads and cached versions expire from
endusers' caches.

-- Marc