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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:16:33 +0200
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On Monday 29 March 2004 03:08, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Folks, I need your help.
>
> I can't tell if this is a DOS attack or someone with a REALLY slow net
> connection.  Whoever this is has been cloning the linux 2.6 (aka 2.5)
> tree on bkbits so slowly that the tree is locked for days and can't
> be updated.  About once a day I go kill the clone because stracing it
> shows it doing nothing.
>
> Linus and Andrew M are annoyed enough that the tree isn't getting updates
> that they complained to me.  Makes me feel bad when they do that so that's
> why I'm looking for help.
>
> In case people want the details, we have a long standing arrangement
> wherein Linus updates linus.bkbits.net and we update from that and then
> update the linux.bkbits.net tree, i.e., the official tree.  That's because
> Linus got frustrated with waiting for locked trees so he got one that
> can't be locked, pulls/clones from it are disallowed unless you are me
> or him.  So we go through a little hop skip and a jump where he pushes
> to his tree, we pull from that, and then we push to linux.bkbits.net.
> That way he never waits on a push.   It's good to be Linus :-)
>
> Anyway, we've suffered more than enough bad press so before I
> assume that this host is a rogue and filter them, does anyone know who
> merlin.fit.vutbr.cz is?  If they really have that slow of a connection
> we'll burn a CD and Fedex it to them, nobody should suffer that much.
> But if this is just a DOS, we'll nuke 'em.

What will prevent someone else to do the same?
-- 
vda
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