[Koha] Reminder: Internet broadcast of Koha-US

[Robin Hastings]

Ah! Now I think I know - I have a bunch of library Wordpress sites on that
server that are *constantly* being attacked and I block any IPs that have
previously attacked us at the server level. You must have an IP that had
previously been used in an attack. If I get a couple of attacks from the
same range, I block the whole range, especially if they are non-US, since
most of our sites are local libraries that aren't generally accessed
outside of the US. I didn't connect the two until Michael mentioned the IPs
being blocked. I'm sorry I didn't pick up on that earlier, I could have
opened a hole into the server for affected IPs!! We did record many of the
sessions and should have them up (on the wiki you weren't able to access -
I'll unblock the addresses you listed in the message above so that you can
access the resources.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> wrote:

> Hi Katrin
>
>
> > I just checked - the website appears accessible from here.
>
> Like I said - I can also ACCESS the website
> http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference - but the SERVER
> koha-us.net blocks me, forbidding me to see the content of the pages,
> showing me this message:
>
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference
> on this server.
> Apache/2.4 Server at koha-us.net Port 80
>
>
> Seems like some IP addresses are blocked (forbidden), I don't know why.
> I tried this from these IP addresses: 178.238.175.156 and 79.143.185.37
> - with wget they are both saying:
>
>
> $ wget http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference
> --2017-08-11 13:24:26--
> http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference
> Resolving koha-us.net (koha-us.net)... 184.106.55.122
> Connecting to koha-us.net (koha-us.net)|184.106.55.122|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 2017-08-11 13:24:26 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>
>
> To me it does not seem like I could change anything on my side. Is maybe
> the NSA blocking me, or "the Russians"?! Чёрт возьми́!
>
> It works with the Tor browser. And with wget it also works from the
> address 5.189.159.76:
>
>
> $ wget http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference
> converted 'http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference'
> (ANSI_X3.4-1968) ->
> 'http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference' (UTF-8)
> --2017-08-11 13:27:20--
> http://koha-us.net/index.php/2017_Koha-US_Conference
> Resolving koha-us.net (koha-us.net)... 184.106.55.122
> Connecting to koha-us.net (koha-us.net)|184.106.55.122|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
> Saving to: '2017_Koha-US_Conference'
>
> 2017_Koha-US_Confer     [ <=>                  ]  35.63K  --.-KB/s   in
> 0.1s
>
> 2017-08-11 13:27:21 (311 KB/s) - '2017_Koha-US_Conference' saved [36481]
>
>
> I have never experienced something like this before.
>
> Best wishes: Michael
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