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Lists and wiki down?

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Stéphane Aulery

Hello,

Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated by the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from the beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org are down (connection failed).

After I have destroyed my cookies these website stay offline for me. I wonder if it's me or if it's general.

I wanted to edit a few pages because I am testing the 3.2.0-rc1 release.

Regards,

Stéphane Aulery
Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR
to Stéphane Aulery

Hi,

St?phane Aulery wrote 9 lines
Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated by the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from the beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org are down (connection failed). After I have destroyed my cookies these website stay offline for me. I wonder if it's me or if it's general. I wanted to edit a few pages because I am testing the 3.2.0-rc1 release.

Lists and wiki are the same machine, so you probably tried too agressively to "hack" your way in, and you're caught by our Fail2Ban installation, which blacklisted your IP for bombing the machine with requests and too many auth failures. The machine is still up and running w/o problems as far as I can tell.

Sorry for the inconvenience. If you send me your IP in private. I might be able to try to un-blacklist it. Can't remember how soon the ban is lifted automatically otherwise.

Charlie

Jonas Maebe
to Stéphane Aulery: Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated by the CAPTCHA.…
Stéphane Aulery wrote
Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated by the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from the beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org are down (connection failed).

The server automatically blocks IP-addresses for a while if they fail the captcha too often in order to block account registration bots.

I have unblocked what I think your IP-address. Keep in mind the captcha does not ask you to perform a mathematical sum, but a string concatenation.

Jonas

Stéphane Aulery
to Jonas Maebe

Le 01/06/2020 12:41, Jonas Maebe a écrit :

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On 01/06/2020 12:29, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated > by > the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from > the > beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org > are > down (connection failed). The server automatically blocks IP-addresses for a while if they fail the captcha too often in order to block account registration bots. I have unblocked what I think your IP-address. Keep in mind the captcha does not ask you to perform a mathematical sum, but a string concatenation.

My bad, yes, I was doing a sum... You unlock me successfully.

Thanks Jonas and Karoly.

Stéphane Aulery