Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz? | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:16:33 +0200 |
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On Monday 29 March 2004 03:08, Larry McVoy wrote: > Folks, I need your help. > > I can't tell if this is a DOS attack or someone with a REALLY slow net > connection. Whoever this is has been cloning the linux 2.6 (aka 2.5) > tree on bkbits so slowly that the tree is locked for days and can't > be updated. About once a day I go kill the clone because stracing it > shows it doing nothing. > > Linus and Andrew M are annoyed enough that the tree isn't getting updates > that they complained to me. Makes me feel bad when they do that so that's > why I'm looking for help. > > In case people want the details, we have a long standing arrangement > wherein Linus updates linus.bkbits.net and we update from that and then > update the linux.bkbits.net tree, i.e., the official tree. That's because > Linus got frustrated with waiting for locked trees so he got one that > can't be locked, pulls/clones from it are disallowed unless you are me > or him. So we go through a little hop skip and a jump where he pushes > to his tree, we pull from that, and then we push to linux.bkbits.net. > That way he never waits on a push. It's good to be Linus :-) > > Anyway, we've suffered more than enough bad press so before I > assume that this host is a rogue and filter them, does anyone know who > merlin.fit.vutbr.cz is? If they really have that slow of a connection > we'll burn a CD and Fedex it to them, nobody should suffer that much. > But if this is just a DOS, we'll nuke 'em.
What will prevent someone else to do the same? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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