On 09/08/2026 04:21, Chris Cason wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Apologies for the issue, but web scrapers forced my hand by totally 
> bringing the system down attempting to scrape the news.povray.org web 
> interface with several thousand connections per second (!)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> At the moment, provided you can use the new IP address, access to port 
> 119 should work whichever method you employ.
> 

You don't need to apologize. If anything, we're the ones who should 
thank you for the work you do to maintain the POVray server for our 
little community.

Implementing a waf is always complicated. You have to constantly balance 
the service you offer with the security measures you need to put in 
place. In the world of wafs, darkness reigns supreme—or perhaps even 
magic !!!

Setting up this new url just for nntp is a great idea. Simple and effective.

The issue has now been resolved. THANK YOU.


But... my thunderbird didn't handle this transition well, and nothing 
was working anymore. I saw some really strange things in the logs (see 
screenshot).

So I deleted all the POV-Ray configurations (I have other configurations 
for other NTP servers that work fine)

I'm in the process of reconfiguring everything, and my first test in 
p.test went well. Gotcha !.


Hoping that Cloudflare doesn't introduce any more jokes.


Regards

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