mercurial.selenic.com is slow

[Giovanni Gherdovich]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
>
> On 13 June 2014, Giovanni Gherdovich said:
> > Hello,
> >
> > right now (13:03 UTC) it takes
> > 22 seconds to get a response from mercurial.selenic.com
>
> Ouch. Working fine for me now, ~30 hours later. Did you try ping
> and/or traceroute? If not, and if performance has recovered... forget
> about it. No one will ever know why.

It happens from time to time, the reason is always the same:
that server is on the list of spambots / spiders who don't respect
robots.txt.

What we do is to send the "bat-signal" or on the list or on IRC
for people like Matt who can ssh into it and mitigate the problem.

GGhh
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