Re web services down My other half suggests exploring Cloudflare. Hope that helps. Ruth On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM <pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Send pbs mailing list submissions to > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pbs-owner@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." > > > List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. PBS web services are down (David Pilling) > 2. Re: PBS web services are down (Robert Lauf) > 3. Re: PBS web services are down (Christine Doud) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:53:19 +0100 > From: David Pilling <david@davidpilling.com> > To: "pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net" > <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: [pbs] PBS web services are down > Message-ID: <f9002299-7c87-4371-8478-62385c5bcd81@davidpilling.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I've turned off the PBS web server, this is because it is being > overwhelmed by unwanted page requests. > > Whether it is an organised denial of service attack or just AI bots with > an unhealthy interest in bulbs I do not know. > > There are common suggestions, like Apache mod_evasive but they don't > appear to work with the particular form of attack. > > I expect we will try to think of a solution. Suggestions? > > > -- > David Pilling > http://www.davidpilling.com/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:46:45 +0000 (UTC) > From: Robert Lauf <boblauf@att.net> > To: David Pilling via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] PBS web services are down > Message-ID: <1778002558.3042616.1760489205840@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Some time back we got a nasty-gram posted on the List that was clearly > sent by some crank who thought we were the more famous PBS.? This could be > another attack based on mistaken identity.? Just a theory and not a > solution! > Bob? ? ?Zone 7 > On Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 06:55:24 PM EDT, David Pilling via pbs > <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've turned off the PBS web server, this is because it is being > overwhelmed by unwanted page requests. > > Whether it is an organised denial of service attack or just AI bots with > an unhealthy interest in bulbs I do not know. > > There are common suggestions, like Apache mod_evasive but they don't > appear to work with the particular form of attack. > > I expect we will try to think of a solution. Suggestions? > > > -- > David Pilling > http://www.davidpilling.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:51:10 -0700 > From: Christine Doud <christinedoud@shasta.com> > To: Bulb Society Pacific <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] PBS web services are down > Message-ID: <3020DC91-7832-43DA-880A-4BCF1B1A7B35@shasta.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Yikes. I?m totally dependent on the Wiki site so I hope it?s back online > soon. Glad to know it wasn?t my device. > Christine > > > On Oct 14, 2025, at 5:46?PM, Robert Lauf via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > ? Some time back we got a nasty-gram posted on the List that was clearly > sent by some crank who thought we were the more famous PBS. This could be > another attack based on mistaken identity. Just a theory and not a > solution! > > Bob Zone 7 > > On Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 06:55:24 PM EDT, David Pilling via > pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've turned off the PBS web server, this is because it is being > > overwhelmed by unwanted page requests. > > > > Whether it is an organised denial of service attack or just AI bots with > > an unhealthy interest in bulbs I do not know. > > > > There are common suggestions, like Apache mod_evasive but they don't > > appear to work with the particular form of attack. > > > > I expect we will try to think of a solution. 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