wiki.freebsd.org

[Andrew]

Hi,

  Who is running the server at wiki.freebsd.org ?

  I was looking at something two days ago and half an hour ago I went to 
refresh the page - 
 - their server responds

"Warning:
You triggered the wiki's surge protection by doing too many requests in a 
short time.
Please make a short break reading the stuff you already got.
When you restart doing requests AFTER that, slow down or you might get locked 
out for a longer time!"


- - I think one request in two days should not trigger their "wiki's surge 
protection"

- - They of course then refuse any connection so it is impossible to find out 
if they have an email contact.

- I know about four years ago Wikipedia once did this, they had failed to 
realise that come carriers (yes carriers, not just an ISP) decide to 
implement a transparent proxy - - the result is the Wiki was blocking people 
because one of the other 2.5 million Australian users of the Optus network 
was also trying to access the wiki at the same time causing their wiki 
software to decide there were too many requests coming from this one server 
handling millions of customers.