[RP-PPPoE] 403 when accessing download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.15.tar.gz

[Dianne Skoll]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:01:22 +1000 (AEST)
David Leonard via RP-PPPoE <rp-pppoe at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> Downloading the old archive at
> https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.15.tar.gz
> results in a 403 (Forbidden). Perhaps this was unintentional?

Shouold be fixed now.  Someone was abusing my server by downloading an
old version every minute or two (probably some automated build script
that didn't cache sources.)  Many logs similar to this:

129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:23:00 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5690 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"
129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:23:05 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5706 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"
129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:23:11 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5674 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"
129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:23:20 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5674 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"
129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:23:54 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5674 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"
129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:24:37 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5690 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"
129.46.96.20 - - [27/Apr/2023:07:24:38 -0400] "GET /projects/rp-pppoe/download/OLD/rp-pppoe-3.12.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 403 5674 "-" "Wget/1.19.4 (linux-gnu)"

I solved it by blocking the IP instead.  Bad Qualcomm!!!

> Also, could you please consider leaving old versions at the same URL?
> ... 2021-05-07 isn't _that_ old :)

Hehe, I guess.  But I do it this way so that automated systems that
check for new releases fail when trying to get the old release... this
forces them to look for a current release.

Regards,

Dianne.