[elrepo] Gateway Timeout when accessing lists.elrepo.org

[Kretschmer, Jens]

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:03:20 -0500
From: Steve Tindall <s10dal at elrepo.org>
To: elrepo at lists.elrepo.org
Subject: Re: [elrepo] Gateway Timeout when accessing lists.elrepo.org
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On 11/29/2017 06:48 AM, Kretschmer, Jens wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> thanks for unblocking the IP. Do you happen to know why it was 
> blocked? I?m experiencing the same issue on other sites (e.g. Nvidia 
> Bug reporting page) too.
> Br,
> Jens

Your http access was flagged because of URI escape encoding ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding ), which is not a rare event, but is sometimes used to hide malicious requests.


 ?Potential http URIescape (hex UTF-8) probe:

 ? 213.136.69.189 - - [29/Nov/2017:07:02:51 -0500] "GET /pipermail/elrepo/2015-December/002905.html%E5%8A%A0%E4%B8%8A+ HTTP/1.1" 
404 381 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8; http://mj12bot.com

 ?Translation:

 ? 213.136.69.189 - - [29/Nov/2017:07:02:51 -0500] "GET /pipermail/elrepo/2015-December/002905.html??+ HTTP/1.1" 404 381 "-" 
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8; http://mj12bot.com/)"


Your request was not malicious and should not have been blocked. I 
suspect it was selected for blockage by accident.

The "potential malicious" lists are sometimes long and mistakes happen. 
:-) Sorry.

Steve

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Hi Steve,

thank you for the explanation.
Unfortunately our IP is blocked again (it is still 165.225.72.121).

Gateway Timeout

Server error - server 74.102.29.59 is unreachable at this moment.

Please retry the request or contact your administrator.

Br,
Jens