Hoi,
Thank you for resolving this :)
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/12/the-tech-barnstar.html
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 December 2013 22:03, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
More news:
It turns out the DDOS was inadvertent and caused by an ill-considered
addition to several projects rather than malice: a script hosted on tool
labs intended to tie Wikidata to search results was made to load on
every page view rather than just upon searching, causing every hit to a
page on the projects to cause the user's client to connect to tool labs.
Obviously, tool labs does not scale well to that many requests. :-)
It will probably take several hours for things to return to normal as we
hunt down and remove those loads and cached versions expire from
endusers' caches.
-- Marc
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