(this mail was CC'ed to debian-admin but I messed up in the To field) Since yesterday, I'm afraid that my IP address 81.56.227.253 is listed on bugs.debian.org among addresses which get a "Go away" answer when requesting a specific bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/xxxxxx)
>From discussions I had on IRC with Anthony Towns, this seems to be caused by numerous requests made by my system to the BTS at regular intervals. There's a reason for this: I work on several packages, some of them having numerous bugs (mostly the samba package). I'm doing this work offline most of the time and, for this reason, I need a copy of the bug log for these packages on my laptop. Thus, I used the "bts cache" command in a daily cron job for the package I am the maintainer (samba, shadow, geneweb, a few d-i packages...). After the first discussion I had with Anthony who kindly alerted me on this problem, I drastically reduced the number of cron jobs, some of them becoming weekly. However, I did not remove the cron jobs for samba...and samba has lot of bugs reported.... It seems that this became enough for my address being listed...and now I can't work anymore on any bug from my home system. I will probably use a workaround by using my ISP proxy server but this just moves the problem elsewhere... Is there something I can do for getting my address unlisted (apart from again reducing the load I put on b.d.o...which I did again down to the lowest acceptable refresh rate on my side)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
