Re:Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
by tptacek on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:28PM
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No. According to the Go project, adding his site to the exclusion list would reduce traffic to his site at the cost of freshness of the data the proxy collects; it would not make it "impossible" for people to use packages from sr.ht.
This is all in the thread that DeVault linked to from his post.
Re:Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
by tete on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:04PM
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Which would still be far from great for any kind of source hosting website.
Re:Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
by tptacek on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:22PM
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In what way would it be "far from great"?
Re:Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
by tete on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:59PM
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Well, why have that proxy/functionality in first place if the best option is to disable it?
Re:Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
by tptacek on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:12PM
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I don't even understand the question you're asking. Nobody is suggesting the proxy be disabled, including for sr.ht.
It's OK not to know the specifics of what this is about, but it's weird to have strong opinions about it if you don't.
Plus, it does seem reasonable to think that only one of the crawlers needs to hit the site. The global replication can happen at the FS level or, heck, the crawlers can just perform pulls from each other.