[Babase] Re: New Babase code repository on-line
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Wed Sep 2 10:35:32 EDT 2009
On 09/02/2009 09:03:03 AM, Ryan Hardy wrote:
> Karl,
>
> As far as I know, the IDS (intrusion detection system) in front of
> the
>
> Duke network does not monitor HTTP-related ports for large amounts of
>
> connections (I don't think HTTP would work very well if it did). So
> as long as you're just using 80/443, I don't think you should have
> any
>
> problems hosting it on papio.
I just (re)did the following test:
A repository checkout over a openvpn vpn connection: works
A repository checkout via regular http to papio: fails
The failure has happened to me 3 times, always after
getting fewer than 100 patches.
The messages are all something like:
darcs failed: Failed to download URL
http://papio.biology.duke.edu/repos/babase/_darcs/patches/20070502041236
Couldn't connect to server
I don't know how else to account for this other than to
suspect the IDS.
(The repo should be available to the public, so a vpn
connection is not a desirable requirement. :-)
FWIW, papio is running a very old version of darcs.
Newer versions don't make so many http connections
so when we upgrade, some day, the problem will probably
take care of itself. (But I've not tested this.)
> -Ryan
>
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> > There is now new information on the wiki concerning the Babase
> > source code repository.
> >
> > https://papio.biology.duke.edu/babasewiki/SourceCode
> >
> > This includes access to the changelog of the published
> > source code: http://papio.biology.duke.edu/src/babase/changes
> >
> > The code and all the changes made over time is now
> > browseable: http://papio.biology.duke.edu/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi/babase
> >
> > Ryan,
> >
> > I believe that anybody attempting to use http to checkout
> > a copy of the code repo will be banned by the Duke firewall
> > for making too many http requests too rapidly. Is this
> > true and is there anything we can do about it?
> > (I.e. I could push another copy of the repo to another
> > webserver somewhere that does not have firewall problems;
> > of course darcs would need to be installed on that server.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Karl <kop at meme.com>
> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> > -- Robert A. Heinlein
> >
>
>
>
Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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