On 2/5/26 11:03, Deri via Discussions among Savannah Hackers, open
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On Thursday, 5 February 2026 16:32:57 GMT Corwin Brust wrote:
[...]
I am one of the developers for FSF groff project. Since the weekend I am
continually receiving timeout on the browser connecting to
savannah.gnu.org.
I did find your IP address blocked on our front end server. I have
removed the IP you provided from the blocklist ipset now.
[...]
I now know its not a good idea to post to /bugs and leave the desk for lunch
and return to find firefox chewing 100% of one cpu with the post screen
frozen.
Do I correctly gather from this that a Firefox bug turned an honest POST
into a DoS attempt that got your IP address (rightly) banned at the server?
I miss when Mozilla packages were the gold standard of Internet client
software...
-- Jacob
