I've just read the backlog for this issue and the only thing I can add to it that as soon as I added a delay to the cron script, my submissions stopped failing. For me personally that is sufficient proof that the cause of #440493 _was_ a DOS issue.
I made the change shown below to the cron script (etch system) and since then there have been no more failures, while before that it would fail every week. [...] # get configuration information . /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf . /etc/popularity-contest.conf ## Added FJP for debugging #440493 sleep 5m # don't run if MAILTO address is blank, and not configured to use HTTP POST! if [ -z "$MAILTO" ] && [ "yes" != "$USEHTTP" ]; then exit 0; fi [...] Cheers, FJP
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