Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org down

Paul Hudak wrote:

I had to reboot haskell this AM it was really hung. My first assumption is abuse by web crawlers. I have denied access to all web crawlers at the moment while I continue looking further into this and the load is staying low. I'll keep you posted.

I've seen this kind of behavior when some stupid referer spammers open hundreds of connections at the same time, typically requesting some dynamic resource, DDoSing the system. I have installed an iptables-based tar pit on my own server that seems to have solved the problem.