Blocked on server side?
22 Feb 2018 1:57:50 UTC
Topic 213547
(moderation:
I was moving some workers (30 or so) over to einstein@home and after a few moments all workers backed off of download tasks and could no longer communicate with project server.
Port 443 (https) seems to be blocked from this IP as I can also not navigate to this site in the browser.
Utilizing a different network everything seems to browse fine, but that still leaves my workers without access to the project server.
Yes, you were blocked
)
Yes, you were blocked server-side, but not intentionally! We have a DOS filter setup to prevent against abuse. When you connected that many hosts to our project, that activity managed to trigger the filter. The block only lasts 24-hours, although I'll try to unban your IP manually in a moment. Sorry about this.
Although we try to design these things to minimize false positives, it sometimes happens. This shouldn't be a problem going forward (hopefully). It was probably the act of having all 30 hosts contact the project simultaneously that triggered the DOS filter. There are plenty of other users with dozens hosts so normal operations shouldn't be affected.
Einstein@Home Project
I figured this was the case,
)
I figured this was the case, thank you for the quick follow up. Connection seems to have been restored.
Moving forward, I see I am going to have to stagger out workers connecting to be a little more friendly!
Thanks again!
That's a lot of computers. I
)
That's a lot of computers. I was curious and took a look at what was attached. Mostly GPU tasks were downloaded from what I could tell. Some of the hosts don't have enough vram to run E@H though. Like the GeForce 9800 GT (511MB). :(
One of the GeForce GT 630 (963MB) has errors, it might be out of vram esp if there is some used for a DE.
mmonnin wrote:One of
)
Nice catch, that particular machine is a bit wonky.
I dialed it in a bit just now, I'll keep an eye on it today as it ticks along.
NUCCpod_NAPTIMELABS_01
)
You shouldn't have to do anything, going forward :-). The odds of more than a couple of machines trying to contact at much the same time, from here on, must be pretty small. Of course, if you were going to add a further big batch, just introduce a small delay between each one :-).
Anyway, welcome to the project. I hope you enjoy your time here!
Cheers,
Gary.