nova.astrometry.net is down?

Ulf Granlund

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May 21, 2022, 2:10:50 PM5/21/22

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It would appear that the web service is down?

/Ulf

Rocco Sung

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May 27, 2022, 7:28:22 AM5/27/22

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It seems down, I got below error and also nova.astrometry.net is inaccessible

ErrorAstroBin could not plate-solve this image because it was not possible to establish a connection to nova.astrometry.net. Please try again later!

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Service Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at nova.astrometry.net Port 443

Dustin Lang

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May 28, 2022, 9:08:55 AM5/28/22

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Hi,

Sorry for the trouble. It looks like some loser is trying to do a DDOS attack. I'm getting it under control...

cheers,

dustin

Michael Zuraw

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Jun 1, 2022, 10:46:50 PM6/1/22

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Is nova.astrometry.net still down? I'm getting a 503 Service Unavailable error. Who would want to take nova.astrometry.net down with a denial-of-service attack?

Dustin Lang

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Jun 2, 2022, 7:25:48 AM6/2/22

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It was up, but then was down overnight. This is due to a different issue -- the DDOS attempt was quite feeble and I blocked it with some simple rules.

cheers,

dustin

Dustin Lang

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Jun 2, 2022, 7:25:56 AM6/2/22

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PS it's up now.

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