[llvm-dev] LLVM.org/viewvc down?

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:42:45PM +0300, Anton Korobeynikov via llvm-dev wrote:
> Unfortunately, we had lot of bogus requests to viewvc (e.g. asking for
> history / blame for random revision) which looked like a DoS. Most
> probably we'll enable it after llvm.org will be migrated to new
> hardware.

How much of that are stupid (chinese) spiders? I had a lot of load
issues for the NetBSD fossil repositories until I added the following to
my nginx configuration:

  if ($http_user_agent ~* (360Spider|80legs|App3leWebKit|Baiduspider|EasouSpider)) {
    return 403;
  }

Joerg