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Re^5: Unable to connect
by bliako (Abbot) on Mar 26, 2025 at 15:11 UTC
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Can I also suggest a quality-of-service monitor, say once/twice per minute from outside the site, or running internally but through a proxy? I think Discipulus and/or choroba, possibly other monks, developed something like this. Once the quality drops, record the ips from the logs and add them to the ban-list. It remains to be decided what kind of ban that will be, given all the points you made earlier.
Apropos captcha, perhaps PM can, once more, innovate by using perl-programming-related puzzles suggested by monks. So that AI bots don't leave empty handed but improve a little. After all, the use of Perl by AI would be much more influential for Perl, than by humans who seem to have, in their proverbial ignorance, abandoned ship :(. I can see these captchas soon to be replaced by whole PM SOPW questions that the AI must answer in order to gain temporary access to SuperSearch. Put those bots to real work.
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Re^5: Unable to connect
by bliako (Abbot) on Mar 24, 2025 at 08:55 UTC
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address range 66.249.64. to 66.249.79.
In fact, it looks a lot like someone trying to use Super Search like google.
NOT like google! This IS google: google $@^#%!%~! crawler aptly located at Moncks Corner, according to this: https://ipinfo.io/66.249.64.71. Good catch. A case of bots gone wild perhaps? | [reply]
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Re^5: Unable to connect
by afoken (Chancellor) on Mar 24, 2025 at 10:33 UTC
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All of the hits are from Anonymous Monk, and all are submitting queries to Super Search — which, of course, is quite resource intensive.
Maybe there should be a rate limit for Super Search and other expensive functions? Applied only to Anonymous Monk, so that regular monks can use Super Search as usual. A sane limit might perhaps be something like two or three searches per second per IP address, and no more than perhaps 20 per Minute per IP address. That would still allow a few Anonymous Monks behind a masquerading gateway, but would block robots.
Or, a little bit evil: Require a login for using Super Search. Yes, it's at least annoying for people not wanting to create yet another account. On the other hand, a Google search with site:perlmonks.org works quite well, so Anonymous Monks could use that.
Alexander
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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)
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At about 1210 UTC today (corresponding to 08:10 server time), I modified Super Search to disallow Anonymous Monk usage.
This should be considered experimental and temporary, to see if/how it affects site responsiveness.
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Just a few minutes ago, I got "Unable to connect" when trying to refresh the RAT.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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