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List:       racket-dev
Subject:    [racket-dev] unable to git fetch, or ssh -v to git.racket-lang.org ?
From:       clements () brinckerhoff ! org (John Clements)
Date:       2013-11-22 16:46:18
Message-ID: 58F1831A-A251-4370-9DBD-E4EA0955730E () brinckerhoff ! org
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On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:19 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> 10 hours ago, John Clements wrote:
> > This... doesn't look like something on my end?
> > [...]
> 
> Did you check if you were blacklisted?

Wow... I see that thread now, from 2011.  I'll check it out. Many thanks. 

For those of you in the future that chance upon this thread, I'm going to paste the \
apparently relevant text from Dec 9, 2011:

In Dec. 2011, Eli wrote:

> As many of you know, there's a common problem where you make a mistake
> in connecting to the git server and get blacklisted which means that
> you have to ask me to remove the entry.  As a solution for such cases,
> I've hacked a tool that allows you to remove an IP address from the
> denyhosts ban -- you can access it at http://internal.racket-lang.org/
> -- the "Release an ssh-blocked IP" entry.
> 
> (This is safe since it requires that you have password access to the
> internal server, and you can only name the IP you want to remove which
> is harmless if you can't get the list of denied hosts.)


Thanks!

John


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