[Labs-l] Some using a Python framework is relentlessly hammering Harvard sites, resulting an IP range ban.

[Martin Urbanec]

Hi,
if it wasn't me, it's good. Please can you give me a link to that phab task
when it will be filled? My phab nickname is Urbanecm. Thanks in advance.

Best,
Martin

ne 4. 12. 2016 v 18:44 odesílatel Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) <
valhallasw at arctus.nl> napsal:

> Hi Martin,
>
> On 4 December 2016 at 18:29, Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec at wikimedia.cz>
> wrote:
>
> I was running weblinkchecker.py for whole cswiki (job was submited to the
> grid at Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:54:24 GMT) because I wished to have a list of
> deadlinks. This may correspond with the UA (because I used script named
> weblinkschecker.py). I trusted this script it won't do anything wrong
> because this script was and still is in standard core package. I also use
> 3.0-dev version of pywikibot and Python 2.7.6.
>
>
> It probably wasn't you, but it was indeed the standard weblinkchecker
> causing this. Apparently no throttling is implemented -- just a maximum
> number of parallel connections. Many parallel connections are fine... but
> not to the same host. This bot was running on eswiki, and ewsiki has
> thousands of links to http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/.
>
> I have contacted the user, and will file a bug for Pywikibot to get this
> solved on that end.
>
> Best,
> Merlijn
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