[SAC] http://svn.osgeo.org/ or http://trac.osgeo.org/ do not respond

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:27:42AM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> So, I tried to clean up old tickets but now I got kicked:
> 
>   "Maximum number of posts per hour for this IP exceeded"
> 
> Funny since my (I think) static IP was whitelisted the other day.

This is a new anti-DOS provision: mod_evasive for Apache.
Contrary to fail2ban this one will still respond (rather than drop
TCP packets). See details in this other mail:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2016-May/006886.html

Whitelisting _is_ available, see
https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/sac/tracsvn-apache-config/src/master/mods-available/mod-evasive.conf#L4

--strk;