[Lazarus] Lazarus server under DDOS

[John Landmesser]

Am 01.10.24 um 17:15 schrieb Michalis Kamburelis via lazarus:
> Note:
>
> As a consequence, the GitHub Action
> https://github.com/gcarreno/setup-lazarus also fails now. Trying to
> use it to install FPC+Lazarus results in an error
>
>    Error: getPackageList -- Request timeout: /packagelist.json
>
> in GitHub Action workflow output. I guess because the action downloads
> https://packages.lazarus-ide.org/packagelist.json . Which, while it
> works in the normal browser (like Firefox) (with a considerable
> delay), but e.g. "wget" (with default timeouts) fails:
>
>     $ wget https://packages.lazarus-ide.org/packagelist.json
>     --2024-10-01 17:09:44--  https://packages.lazarus-ide.org/packagelist.json
>     Resolving packages.lazarus-ide.org (packages.lazarus-ide.org)...
> 37.97.187.115, 2a01:7c8:aac1:2f0::1
>     Connecting to packages.lazarus-ide.org
> (packages.lazarus-ide.org)|37.97.187.115|:443... failed: Connection
> timed out.
>     Connecting to packages.lazarus-ide.org
> (packages.lazarus-ide.org)|2a01:7c8:aac1:2f0::1|:443... failed:
> Network is unreachable.
>
> ( I understand this, I mean I'm writing above as just "FYI" for people
> who may be using https://github.com/gcarreno/setup-lazarus , like
> Castle Game Engine actions do. I was surprised today to see our GitHub
> Actions fail, but this explains it. I'm not "demanding" any action,
> sure you need to put limits to protect from DDOS. I'm just making a
> note to eventually relax these limits to at least enable the above
> wget again. )
>
> Regards,
> Michalis
>
> wt., 1 paź 2024 o 11:00 Marc Weustink via lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> napisał(a):
>> Hi,
>> The Lazarus server is currently under heavy DDOS. This affects the
>> Lazarus main site, the Lazarus packages, the Lazarus mailing list
>> archives and the Lazarus+Freepascal forum.
>> I've enabled a rate limiter so the sites should be available again (in
>> the first few seconds it was active, it blocked 10k connection attempts)
>> but it might have some side effects using the forum.
>> I hope it gets over soon.
>>
>> Marc
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Just downloaded lazarus trunk + compiled useride that took 2m:35s  I
think that is normal. Living in Germany, Frankfurt am Main

Perhaps this issue is gone ?