Lots of "Backend status: Backend fetch failed" notices in recent days. . .

[Sean Bruno]

On 01/27/18 18:13, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> Mark Millard (marklmi26-fbsd at yahoo.com) wrote:
>> In recent daysI've been getting lots of:
>>
>>> Error 503 Backend fetch failed
>>>
>>> Backend status: Backend fetch failed
>>
>> for various https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/. . ./<NUMBER>.html
>> attempts. The <NUMBER> ones are (normally?) recent ones. The next
>> day I'll have no trouble looking at the same. But at the time it
>> seems completely repeatable over a fair amount of time.
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for reporting this issue. bugmeister@ team doesn't handle mailing
> lists infrastructure we only have access to Bugzilla instance. I added
> clusteradm@ and www@ to Cc, hopefully someone from these teams can look
> into this problem
> 
> Thanks
> 

It looks like someone has invented a new DDoS tool specifically for
mailing list servers.  I have blocked it vi PF and it looks like things
have calmed down a bit.

I'll keep an eye on it for a while and see if it picks up again.

sean

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