Hello, > But it's now being claimed (one might assume, in defense of the > new policy) that disallowing missing User-Agent strings is cutting > 20-50% of the (presumably undesirable) load. Which sounds pretty > primary. So which is it?
Check the CPU drop in Monday: http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/pmtpa/graph.php?g=cpu_report&z=medium&c=Search&m=&r=week&s=descending&hc=4 Network drop on API: http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/pmtpa/graph.php?g=network_report&z=medium&c=API%20application%20servers&m=&r=week&s=descending&hc=4 etc. You can sure assume, that we need to come up with something to "defend a new policy". > Presumably some percentage of that 20-50% will come back as the > spammers realize they have to supply the string. Presumably we > then start playing whack-a-mole. Yes, we will ban all IPs participating in this. > Presumably there's a plan for what to do when the spammers begin > supplying a new, random string every time. Random strings are easy to identify, fixed strings are easy to verify. > (I do worry about where this is going, though.) Going where it always goes, proper operations of the website. Been there, done that. Domas _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
