Hi Adam -
Totally understood.
Alas, at the moment, without this mode, *nobody* could access the site.
:-) So as a hopefully very temporary band-aid, I need to leave this on for
now.
To all IETF participants and all those impacted by this, I'm really sorry
for the inconvenience (and I am - it impacted me as well! ) and as soon as
we can get this shut off safely we will do so. I'm hoping this won't be
long. We will try turning it off several times this evening, and see if
the attack has stopped; however, given Cloudflare's east coast location, it
may be tomorrow morning (roughly 14 hours from now) before we can reach a
human at Cloudflare to find out what's really going on.
Also, as a reminder, please note Adam's example: I'm not on the IETF
discussion list at the moment, so please email me directly if you need to
reach me, as Adam did.
Thanks again for your patience!
Glen
Glen Barney
IT Director
AMS (IETF Secretariat)
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Adam Roach <adam(_at_)nostrum(_dot_)com> wrote:
Incidentally -- and I don't know if you turned this on or if Cloudflare
did -- but the interstitial page that appears when accessing IETF pages is
described by Cloudflare like this: " Javascript and cookies are required
for the tests and recording the fact that the tests were correctly passed."
I know some significant percentage of IETFers run with javascript turned
off, so this may pose a hardship for them.
/a
On 8/3/15 17:03, Glen wrote:
All -
We are experiencing degradation on the websites served by the primary IETF
server group, including the IETF main website, the IAB and IRTF sites, and
the Datatracker.
Page load times for all sites are extremely slow.
We have engineers working on this now.
The problem *seems* to be that Cloudflare is sending us hundreds of
simultaneous connections from hundreds of different IP addresses across
many netblocks. We are contacting Cloudflare now to see why this is
happening, and what can be done to mitigate it, and we are continuing to
investigate options on our end to restore normal service.
Other services and sites are not impacted, and one way or another we will
have service restored shortly. Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Glen
Glen Barney
IT Director
AMS (IETF Secretariat)