Hi, folks, I'm not sure who to contact about this.
Over the past few months, our mirror server has been the subject of an
apparent DDoS. Today I tracked it down to millions of attempted
downloads from `http://postgres.csail.mit.edu/repos/` and I have
configured the server to return a 403 error for that part of the site;
we are happy to provide a mirror service for humans to use but we did
not sign up for 720,000 (and counting) random Linux machines around
the world to abuse our server and interfere with our own local access
to the archives.
I have no idea how or why anyone got the idea to put
postgres.csail.mit.edu into their apt or dnf configuration, but we
can't and won't allow that.
-GAWollman
for sysadmin@csail.mit.edu
