Thanks! makes sense now. I’ll try to contact James. thanks again,
David K > On Apr 27, 2017, at 10:43 PM, Christian Beer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 27.04.2017 19:15, David E Kim wrote: >> I’m working on a BOINC server upgrade and “cert_all.php” doesn’t seem to >> work. >> >> The following is hard coded in user.inc but gives a forbidden error response: >> >> http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/get_user.php?cpid= >> >> >> >> Is there another url that we should use? > > Please see this email from James Drews (the owner of > boinc.netsoft-online.com) from 2015 on boinc_projects (subject: > boinc.netsoft-online.com change): > > On 10.11.2015 17:56, James Drews wrote: >> Just writing to let you know, that I have changed policy on who can use the >> "get_user" rpc. All projects use this RPC on the user's "my account" page >> to show other projects they are participating in. >> >> As of this morning, I have restricted the page to only Boinc project sites >> that I know of (ie, the ones I'm currently pulling stats from). The >> restriction is IP based, so if your project is on a dynamic IP or changes, >> its going to get blocked when it does. >> >> The reason for the change is it is being abused. The load on the server >> this morning was over 120. It appears that there is something out there >> trying to pull down all stats from multiple locations all over the world. >> In trying to watch the logs, I saw the same cpid getting requested from >> multiple places within a few seconds, none of which were project sites. >> >> After making the change, the site is still getting hit at a very high rate >> (over 2 million hits an hour), but the load at least is a reasonable (2 or >> less). >> >> If your site is getting blocked, feel free to drop me a line with your >> server's IP address, and I'll add it to the list of allowed entries. >> >> >> James > > Regards > Christian _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
