It’s working for me right now. Unsure if Tobias happened to visit during (or shortly after) maintenance, or if he’s region locked.
The Mastodon thread explains it. GNU.org was being attacked by a botnet and the automated protection excluded many legitimate visitors. They’ve since dialled it back.
Just seems like anyone who has the resources and skills to control a DDOS botnet would have better things to do with their time. As in higher value targets.
bots attack FOSS -> servers go down -> they complain
bots attack proprietary -> hit cloudflare -> use their money to buy more servers -> nothing happens
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For the lazy: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
It’s working for me right now.
Unsure if Tobias happened to visit during (or shortly after) maintenance, or if he’s region locked.The Mastodon thread explains it. GNU.org was being attacked by a botnet and the automated protection excluded many legitimate visitors. They’ve since dialled it back.
Edit: unnecessary word
Got a 429 now when I tried, I guess they’re still working on resolving the botnet traffic issue
Either that or this thread and others like it have caused the hug of death from well meaning visitors. Whoops.
Who would attack gnu.org and why?
Who? Assholes.
Why? Assholes.
Just seems like anyone who has the resources and skills to control a DDOS botnet would have better things to do with their time. As in higher value targets.
Botnets have been DDOSing Arch sites for a couple months. Not only do they not have better things to do, they seem to be targeting FOSS.
bots attack FOSS -> servers go down -> they complain
bots attack proprietary -> hit cloudflare -> use their money to buy more servers -> nothing happens