Re: Mailing list archive access glitches

Hi again!

Turns out it was both this and a DoS attack. Hopefully we've mitigated the
attack as well now.

//Magnus

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I believe Alvaro got this sorted last night, but forgot to reply to the
> thread :)
>
> The root of the problem is "the good old cisco firewall" that keeps on
> acting up. We've finally gotten to the point that it's scheduled for
> replacement, so hopefully this type of problem will happen less once that's
> done.
>
> //Magnus
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Over the past few days I've frequently had attempts to
>> fetch a https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/... URL
>> fail with reports like
>>
>> Error 503 Backend fetch failed
>>
>> Backend fetch failed
>>
>> Guru Meditation:
>>
>> XID: 89820252
>>
>> Varnish cache server
>>
>> It eventually works if I reload enough times. Discussion
>> on Discord says that other people have seen this too.
>>
>> The problem seems noticeably worse right now ...
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>>
>>
>