It looks like there is a large number of organizations that have started automatically cloning the hostap.git repository way too frequently. At times, this shows up as a practical DoS attack against the server. This is unacceptable and needs to stop. There cannot be an acceptable use case that ends up having ten servers doing a full git clone of the repository in parallel and multiple times per minute (or per second as has been the case in some more extreme sequences). Unfortunately, I have no way of identifying the exact source of an issue in a manner that would make it convenient to ask things to be fixed in more individual and friendly manner. As such, I will have to start blocking access to the server based on IP address to stop the most egregious cases. In other words, if you notice that your automated build (or whatever) setup stops getting updates from hostap.git, it may be because of this. Please feel free to contact me privately if you want to get such blocking removed after you have confirmed that there won't be more than ten git operations per hour from the IP network to my git server, and ideally, not really more than once an hour update for any particular automated task, or be prepared to explain why your use cases needs more frequent operations. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
