Re: 429 Too Many Request error from IPFire Community

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello everyone,

We are back!

There is some bot that is loading the front page again and again and again… And nginx couldn’t distinguish clients by their IP address because this is hard to configure.

So all fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

Best,
-Michael

> On 17 Mar 2023, at 11:13, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Adolf,
> 
> Thanks for the email. I am getting the same error… Will investigate…
> 
> -Michael
> 
>> On 17 Mar 2023, at 11:12, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> Just in case you aren't aware, the IPFire community is giving me a 429 Too Many Requests message most of the time.
>> 
>> The IPFire Blog, Wiki, Bugzilla, Dev mailing list are all working fine.
>> 
>> All menu items on the IPFire Blog are working except for Community.
>> 
>> Community was working fine for me before I went for a walk with my dog. When I came back and I opened the IPFire Community on my android phone it said there was a new message in the forum so I clicked on it and that is when it came back with the 429 Too Many Requests message.
>> 
>> Looking up the message the info on it said that I was overloading the IPFire Community server and so was being blocked.
>> 
>> I don't believe I am sending too many, or if I am then I don't know what changed in the last 1.5 hours.
>> 
>> Any suggestions on what my problem might be and how to resolve/stop it?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Adolf.
>> 
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>> Sent from my laptop
>> 
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