<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Grab,<div><br></div><div>I'm also seeing an issue trying to set up new package links. I'm able to enter my username and password, see the packages I can link, click the icon to link it, and then it refreshes to the username/password screen without having set up a link.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this at all related to the issues you're having with the botnet?<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 4, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Greg Kuhnert wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All....</div><div><div>On 04/05/2013, at 9:19 PM, Richard C. Barker Sr. <<a href="mailto:admin@probass.com">admin@probass.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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I get this:<br>
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<font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
12px; font-weight: bold;">Software Updates was unable to
retrieve a list of packages
from the Software Updates server located at <a href="http://newlinq.blueonyx.it/">newlinq.blueonyx.it</a>.
Please check to make sure that <a href="http://newlinq.blueonyx.it/">newlinq.blueonyx.it</a>
is a valid Software Updates server and that you can query it
from your web browser. <br>
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</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes... this is related to the swatch error people have seen as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Last couple of days, the servers have been receiving a constant botnet barrage that is hammering the webstores... This in turn is hitting the back end that is shared with newlinq. The annoying thing here is that NewLinQ is actually quite stable with no errors. I did a test shutdown of newlinq, leaving only the webstore and mysql active - and it still died after a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been building some custom dfix2 rules to block the botnet - hopefully it will calm down in a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>Greg.</div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it">Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</a><br>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>