[Koha] Reminder: Internet broadcast of Koha-US

[Christopher Davis]

Robin,

Good thinking! Michael, I hope that this solves your problem accessing the
website.

Take care,


Christopher Davis
Systems & E-Services Librarian
Uintah County Library
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Robin Hastings <rhastings at nekls.org>
wrote:

> 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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