[Mediawiki-l] Site errors caused by load?

Rob Lingelbach rob at colorist.org
Sun Feb 1 00:06:57 UTC 2009


Philip, could you perhaps be under the influence of Denial-of-Service  
attacks?

if these accesses are from bots that seem legitimate, you could,  
depending on
your OS, prevent their access via (for example) iptables.

I would suggest turning off access for the bots in iptables (depending  
on your OS)
and then checking the situation.  then you can determine what will be  
the final
solution.


On Feb 1, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Philip Beach wrote:

> Visitors to my wiki are complaining of regularly-occurring 503  
> "Service
> Temporarily Unavailable" errors, or just simply the site not loading  
> through

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Rob Lingelbach
rob at colorist.org







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