RE: Problems with vim.org scripts site

Badmagic replied to Bram:
>> The Vim website is still half-broken. The connection to the
>> database is not working. I have filed a ticket:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/17514
>>
>> I'm afraid I have no clue how to speed this up. If you know
>> someone inside SourceForge, please contact him/her.
>
> I'm probably wrong but 503 errors, the mysql.sock error and
> sporadic errors while searching scripts looks very indicative
> of a DDoS attack tying up the server but I'm sure this has
> been checked out.

Sourceforge definitely have experienced recent attacks. They
emailed all people with accounts on 29 January saying:

We recently experienced a directed attack on SourceForge
infrastructure
(http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-net-attack/)
and so we are resetting all passwords in the sf.net database

I guess we just have to wait.

John

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