[Teammetrics-discuss] Something is wrong with update-data

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Sukhbir,

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:51:46PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> So I checked why our scripts are failing, both liststat and commitstat.
> The good news is that the scripts are fine. The bad news is that some
> sort of rate-limiting of requests is going on.

That's bad news.

> On running liststat, I noticed that after about 8/18 of the lists, we
> started hitting the connection refused message. So I tried to manually
> get the page, just to confirm everything was OK with our scripts:
> 
> $ wget http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-horde-hackers
> --2013-10-20 21:42:20--  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-horde-hackers
> Resolving lists.alioth.debian.org (lists.alioth.debian.org)... 217.196.43.134
> Connecting to lists.alioth.debian.org (lists.alioth.debian.org)|217.196.43.134|:80... failed: Connection refused.
> 
> It seems like we are being rate-limited because after sometime,
> connections to alioth work (but then we are blacklisted again). I
> verified this through my VPS also so the problem is not with the blends
> server but with alioth/vasks.
> 
> So how do you want to handle this? I can put in a sleep() between
> fetching the lists or we can talk to the Alioth people to whitelist our
> IP. I think the former is easier to do than asking them, but I wanted to
> hear your take on this first.

I think talking to alioth admins to help us is the solution and sleep()
is only a workaround.  Probably they want to make spamers a harder time
but we are not spammers and should not be harmed by anti-spam means.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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