[fpc-other] Lists and wiki down?

[Stéphane Aulery]

Le 01/06/2020 12:41, Jonas Maebe a écrit :
> On 01/06/2020 12:29, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
>> Tonight I tried to register with user "LkpPo" and was always defeated 
>> by
>> the CAPTCHA. After some times I reloaded the page to try again from 
>> the
>> beginning. After that, lists.freepascal.org and wiki.freepascal.org 
>> are
>> down (connection failed).
> 
> The server automatically blocks IP-addresses for a while if they fail
> the captcha too often in order to block account registration bots.
> 
> I have unblocked what I think  your IP-address. Keep in mind the 
> captcha
> does not ask you to perform a mathematical sum, but a string 
> concatenation.

My bad, yes, I was doing a sum... You unlock me successfully.

Thanks Jonas and Karoly.

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Stéphane Aulery