Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Looks like email delivery stopped at fencepost. And debbugs takes a > very long time to return results of a query. > > Another DDoS attack on GNU servers?
I shouldn't be responding to this as I don't know first hand information but I didn't see other responses so will contribute what I know. I see that Andrew restarted Apache on debbugs this morning and that seems to have gotten things going. The main problem may have been Apache getting snarled up there. Don't know. Seems likely to be the main problem today though. I peeked in at the Apache logs on debbugs and while it does seem to have some small number of bots crawling the site inappropriately it did not seem to be overwhelmed by them. I monkey tested the web interface and though it wasn't really fast it also did respond in not too long of a time. I'll queue up a todo for me to see if I can block some of the inappropriate bots on debbugs but that doesn't seem urgent as it seems to be handling the load of them okay. I didn't see any mail waiting in the mailq on debbugs. The main problem I see in the mail logs is a problem with the SpamAssassin Bayes due to a permission error. Therefore the Bayes subsystem is probably not working for SpamAssassin on incoming mail there. I do not know Exim very well but I didn't see any obvious errors happening. But me not seeing errors in exim is far from any statement of happiness there! When it comes to Exim and myself we are pretty much an estranged couple. I happen to have my fingers poked into these things and so here I am. But for all things debbugs I recommend using the help-debb...@gnu.org mailing list as a good place to reach Glenn and the other volunteers looking after the debbugs system. Just as background information there is a slow process of trying to upgrade the debbugs system. It has stalled a little bit of late but will get back going again at some point. Hope that helps, Bob
