What should I do to resovle the flush-hosts problem? If it's hardware
we need, then it's hardware we shall have. Is the problem solvable by
ram? By CPU?
I'm ready to throw some money at this thing again. Suggestions would
be much appreciated.
Of course, it'd also be groovy if everyone who is working on a Phase
IV idea might be willing to stop porting, or to port with a STRONG eye
towards helping with the performance problem. Clever tweaks to the
site to avoid DB queries would probably be *most* helpful, but which
queries to avoid?
--Jimbo
Hi there,
there is another bot running on the German Wikipedia and the user wanted
to set the bot bit in the user database so that the changes made by the
bot won't appear in the Special:Recentchanges.
Could some one of the developers set the necessary bit?
Attached you find the original message from Nils who created the ApeBot
in German where he is asking to do the changes.
Regards
Thomas
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikide-l] Botrechte
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:13:15 +0200
From: Nils Kehrein <usenet2003(a)affenkrieger.de>
Reply-To: wikide-l(a)wikipedia.org
To: wikide-l(a)wikipedia.org
Hi,
kann jemand meinem kleinen Bot (neuer Username dafür "ApeBot") die
entsprechenden Rechte geben, dass die Änderungen nicht mehr in
[[Spezial:Recentchanges]] auftauchen? Hat sich nämlich schon wer
beschwert :-|
Gruß,
Nils.
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Erik Zachte wrote:
>The last database dump was made 18 days ago.
>Brion does this normally once a week and he is on
>another assignement till tomorrow.
>
>Does this mean that Wikipeia loses 18 days of edits
>if a diskcrash occurs, or are there other backups as
>well?
I sure hope not... But it does look that way (I have those cur dumps on my
hard disk just in case now).
>If SQl dumps are all we have, would it not be better to
>schedule an automatic dump each night?
>Or does this bring Wikipedia to a halt for a prolonged time?
Brion may have since devised a better way to do this, but I remember him
having to put each wiki in read only mode for at least several minutes each
to do the weekly backups (the larger the wiki the longer it took).
I'm sure this could be done automatically if you could trust a script to have
the type of access controls needed to make a wiki read only.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Amillar wrote on [[Wikipedia talk:Bots]]:
>>>
I believe my IP address has been banned because I swamped the server with a
script. (It was retrieving and not updating, but being automated I suppose
it qualifies as a bot anyways. I thought it was slow enough, but apparently
not.) Strangely, though, my IP address does not show up in
Special:Ipblocklist. How do I go about verifying that is what happened, and
perform appropriate apologies and grovelling to get re-instated? Thanks for
any advice. -- Amillar 19:16 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
<<<
He was later much more specific on [[User talk:Amillar]]:
>>>
The IP I'm having trouble connecting from is 216.99.203.72. Just to verify,
I resolve www.wikipedia.org as 130.94.122.199, to which I can ping and
traceroute but not open port 80. Thanks. -- Amillar 15:15 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
<<<
I thought this sounded easy enough to fix, since I had seen a list of such
bots in the /apache/conf directory on larousse. But after some grepping, I
couldn't find any IP address in his block listed, or his domain name
(aracnet). I'm out of ideas, does anyone else know what's going on?
-- Tim Starling