Public IP blacklisted ?

[Aaron Conole]

Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> writes:

> 29/01/2024 10:41, Benjamin Andru:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We have a issue when we try to reach your website
>> "http://core.dpdk.org/<http://core.dpdk.org/doc/>" from our
>> headquarters.
>> We think that we were blacklisted due to a script we've run
>> It "wget" http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot a lot...
>> 
>> We fixed that 12 january 2024.
>
> How did you fix it?
> We asked to use GitHub URL in scripts:
> http://inbox.dpdk.org/ci/5933180.BEx9A2HvPv@thomas/

Add onto this - what is the purpose of polling that URL with wget?

>> Can you remove your blacklist entry for 217.181.231.53 ?
>
> Unfortunately you didn't reply to above email,
> so we didn't know who was blacklisted.
>
>> Users in copy can tell you why we really want to have access to your website 🙂
>
> Ali can unblock and monitor your activity on the server.

Maybe you can help as well to add a custom user agent with your script
so we can at least know what you are polling when you hit the DPDK
servers?