[Moin-user] Too many clients?

[Vincent Favre-Nicolin]

	Hi,

> while using the MoinMoin Wiki at a classroom, a colleague of mine
> encountered a problem. In a computer classroom he asked the students to
> look at a certain group of pages (but not yet to edit them!). He said that
> a warning message appeared which said that no human individual could read
> so many pages in such little time; and that there would be a long lasting
> blockade if that would not stop. And so it happened.
>
> Of course, all the computers will have ip-addresses from the same range.
> Did that activate a kind of dos attack defense in the wiki? Who knows about
> that? Where can this functionality be triggered?

  You need to change the "surge protection" feature in moinmoin. See:
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection

or, since moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de seems to be down, on any other wiki:
http://objcryst.sourceforge.net/Fox/HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection

	Vincent
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Vincent Favre-Nicolin
Université Joseph Fourier
http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr
ObjCryst & Fox : http://objcryst.sourceforge.net