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== AI Scraper Blocking (Anubis) ==

To help with the recent flood of AI scrapers on the Xiph GitLab instance, which made it return 50x errors
most of the time due to being hopelessly overloaded, Anubis was deployed which tries to identify these
and presents a challenge for them to solve or blocks them outright.

If you encounter issues due to this as legitimate user, please contact ePirat on IRC.

== IP blocks ==
We have a number of IP ranges blocked to prevent huge amounts of spam to the GitLab instance.

The IP blocks are configured in <code>/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb</code> in the <code>nginx['custom_gitlab_server_config']</code> option. Additionally there is a custom error page for when the IP is blocked, which is stored at <code>/var/www/html/gitlab-ipblock.html</code>.

After making changes to the <code>gitlab.rb</code>, you need to run <code>sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure</code> for the changes to be applied to the actual config files. '''Under no circumstances edit the generated config files directly''', always use the <code>gitlab.rb</code> config.

In case you made an error in the configuration and something is not working as expected or some components, for example nginx, are not starting anymore, you can use <code>sudo gitlab-ctl tail</code> to view logs.