Re: openqa.debian.net badly reachable

Philip Hands <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:05:38 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Roland,

Roland Clobus <[email protected]> writes:

...
> It looks like openqa.debian.net is discovered by web scrapers... I can 
> hardly reach the site.

It seems OK just now. Did you confirm that it was caused by scrapers, or
was that just a guess? I am just wondering if it might be possible that
we're DoS-ing ourselves when uploading test results, or some such.

> Can we do something against this?

It seems that people have started writing things to slow-down and/or
poison AI bots. I guess we could try installing one of them if need be.

> The file /var/log/apache2/ssl_request_log is 26GB and growing. Should 
> this file be handled by log rotation?

Ah, yes, the '_' means that logrotate was ignoring it.

I've reconfigured apache to log to ssl_request.log and have compressed
the large file, so that should rotate properly in future.

Cheers, Phil.
-- 
Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

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