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| TallyMan wrote: | | Cornflake wrote: | | ... over the last 10 hours or so on WP. |
Ten hours! Do you live here? Alex will be charging you ground rent soon. |
Heh - pretty much, on and off. Mostly on. 
Probably another two hours to go and then I'll clock out...
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| TallyMan wrote: | | Cornflake wrote: | | ... over the last 10 hours or so on WP. |
Ten hours! Do you live here? Alex will be charging you ground rent soon.
I've only been online here for a mere 6 or so hours today. |
Ahem...my server, my network. I believe I'm the one owed rent here. 
OK, so we probably found *a* problem with how the site was working with cloudflare...but it seems that we now have a brand new set of issues to work out now. *Yaay*
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| Cornflake wrote: | | TallyMan wrote: | | Cornflake wrote: | | ... over the last 10 hours or so on WP. |
Ten hours! Do you live here? Alex will be charging you ground rent soon. |
Heh - pretty much, on and off. Mostly on.
Probably another two hours to go and then I'll clock out... |
I'm clocking out now. It is midnight here in France and I need my beauty sleep. It is alright for you youngsters, wait until you get to my age.
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Cornflake
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I tend to rely on embalmer's wax and formaldehyde to keep me in shape these days. 
| sliqua-jcooter wrote: | | OK, so we probably found *a* problem with how the site was working with cloudflare...but it seems that we now have a brand new set of issues to work out now. *Yaay* |
Oh well, on balance that's good I guess.
At least the problem had the common decency to move somewhere less noticeable to WP users. 
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| nat4200 wrote: | | sliqua-jcooter wrote: | | TallyMan wrote: | | Cornflake wrote: | | ... over the last 10 hours or so on WP. |
Ten hours! Do you live here? Alex will be charging you ground rent soon.
I've only been online here for a mere 6 or so hours today. |
Ahem...my server, my network. I believe I'm the one owed rent here.
OK, so we probably found *a* problem with how the site was working with cloudflare...but it seems that we now have a brand new set of issues to work out now. *Yaay* |
Any details, for those of us playing along at home?
And, what's this talk I here 'bout charging Cornflake rent? If anything you should be doubling his mod salary in lieu of overtime / services rendered... |
Basically, one of the httpd modules that provides DoS protection was misbehaving and ignoring the cloudflare whitelists. It wasn't blocking requests, it was simply enforcing rate-limits that were causing requests to be queued to the point that cloudflare gave up. It also wasn't logging anything, so we couldn't even tell this was going on. Once we unloaded the module, the mass amounts of reports on that one error stopped coming in. Now we appear to be seeing a different error being reported much less often, and conveniently we've confirmed that all other security-related httpd modules are whitelisting correctly, and also logging correctly - so this is something else entirely.
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Cornflake
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| sliqua-jcooter wrote: | | Basically, one of the httpd modules that provides DoS protection was misbehaving and ignoring the cloudflare whitelists. It wasn't blocking requests, it was simply enforcing rate-limits that were causing requests to be queued to the point that cloudflare gave up. It also wasn't logging anything, so we couldn't even tell this was going on. |
Ooh, sneaky... 
| nat4200 wrote: | | And, what's this talk I here 'bout charging Cornflake rent? If anything you should be doubling his mod salary in lieu of overtime / services rendered... |
Mod salary?  What is this "salary" you speak of?
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| nat4200 wrote: | | And, what's this talk I here 'bout charging Cornflake rent? If anything you should be doubling his mod salary in lieu of overtime / services rendered... |
Mod salary? What is this "salary" you speak of? |
Double $0...? |
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Cornflake
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Yep.
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At about 00:28 BST I got the first CloudFlare error since Tue Apr 3.
The "No cached version available" error.
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*raises hand*
Just now
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Cornflake
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"No cached version available" error occurring now - first time since my previous post here.
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"This website is offline
No cached version is available"
Error occurring now.
Shiny new dialog, but still the same bogus error.
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