[Clipart] Re: openclipart.org hacked? what happened???

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:52:37AM -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:46 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Jon Phillips wrote:
> > > Actually, the site is down, as I just found out, because pdx saw that
> > > our site was peaking out over 2-3 days from too many downloads and they
> > > thought it is/was possibly serving warez so they shut down. Daniel Stone
> > > is looking into...
> > 
> > Can we convince them somehow the next time our website will be blocked 
> > to inform us somehow, bugzilla, email, so we can investigate the problem 
> > in a reasonable time? Even informing after the fact is better than the 
> > current situation, when we find this by trial and error one week later.
> 
> Yes, we need to do this...it is frustrating to get blocked like
> this...arg.

Unfortunately I didn't have email or anything reasonable (just my 770
and GPRS), so I joined #openclipart and said something there, as soon as
it happened.

> > > Anyhow, the log is viewable here:
> > > 
> > > /var/log/apache2/clipart.freedesktop.org-access.log.1
> > 
> > I asked more than once on this list if f.d.o. provides any log analyzer, 
> > is situations like this such a tool would be useful, even if it is 
> > something simple like Webalizer.
> 
> Cool, I asked for awstats to get installed so that we can do some
> analysis on our logs...ideally, we should do this anyhow to track the
> prroject.
> 
> Ok, I think Kees has solved this issue and now we are waiting for Daniel
> Stone to get back to us with a status update.

I've re-enabled it for the moment, and we'll go from there.