[lustre-devel] Git server down?

[Andreas Dilger]

Hi Ellis,
indeed the git.whamcloud.com <http://git.whamcloud.com/> added a spam filter due to AI Bot scraping
overloading the server.  This was done via Cloudflare, but it blocks
HTTP(s) access from Git.  You can use SSH to access it via your Gerrit
account.  This was also impacting git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release <http://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release>
access, but that was "read-mostly" and all of the development was done
via Gerrit, so the Github clone was sufficient for read-only usage.


I've cloned it to the Github Lustre project, which is likely a better
long-term repository to update in any case (there hasn't been any updates
to the protocol document in 11 years...):

https://github.com/lustre/lustre-protocol.git
git at github.com:lustre/lustre-protocol.git

Cheers, Andreas

On Nov 24, 2025, at 9:12 AM, Ellis Wilson wrote:
> 
> Sorry for reviving an old thread, but this has plagued me for a while now.  I've tried everything I can think of (hotspotting through my phone, running nmap against whamcloud, which didn't show the git server port, trying to download via a git client on my phone, etc), but nothing is working.
> 
> When I visit the page via the browser it works, but sends me through Cloudflare first.  I suspect this is where the issue lies — Cloudflare doesn't play well with selfhosted git in many cases.  Pivoting to the github release mirror works fine for Lustre itself, but non-mirrored repos obviously don't (e.g., protocol.git, which I've been working to refactor and merge into the wiki).  I was able to get the files I need by browsing the tree and then clicking on "snapshot", which gives me a tar.gz file, but this is clumsy and I had to hunt for a while to figure it out.
> 
> If Peter or somebody else can shed some light on what security actually was put in play it would help me reason about whether this is really just me, or if lots of people have had to pivot to the mirror and this is a more generalizable problem for the git.whamcloud.com site.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ellisFrom: lustre-devel <lustre-devel-bounces at lists.lustre.org> on behalf of Peter Jones via lustre-devel <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2025 12:51 PM
> To: Götz Waschk <goetz.waschk at gmail.com>; lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [lustre-devel] Git server down?
>  Götz
>  Some extra security was recently added and it seems to have cause issues for a couple of people. Others impacted have found switching to use the github mirror -https://github.com/lustre/lustre-release - was a simple way to sidestep problems.
>  Peter
>  From: lustre-devel <lustre-devel-bounces at lists.lustre.org> on behalf of Götz Waschk via lustre-devel <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> Reply-To: Götz Waschk <goetz.waschk at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, August 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
> To: "lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org" <lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org>
> Subject: [lustre-devel] Git server down?
>  Hi everyone,
>  I cannot access the git server:
>  # git clone -b master git://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git lustre-master
> Cloning into 'lustre-master'...
> fatal: unable to connect to git.whamcloud.com:
> git.whamcloud.com[0: 2606:4700:3031::6815:30f6]: errno=Connection timed out
> git.whamcloud.com[1: 2606:4700:3030::ac43:8af5]: errno=Connection timed out
> git.whamcloud.com[2: 104.21.48.246]: errno=Connection timed out
> git.whamcloud.com[3: 172.67.138.245]: errno=Connection timed out
>  Regards,
> Götz Waschk
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Cheers, Andreas