SourceForge has been giving me this message at the top of the project pages I’ve been visiting:
The most immediate problem with their message is that 172.29.29.1 falls dab in the middle of a big reserved block only meant to be used for intranets. Thus, SourceForge is getting Martian packets and (here’s where my knowledge falls down goes boom) linking them to me. How can SF link any of those packets to me? Doesn’t the fact the IP address is in a reserved block preclude them from linking it to anyone? (That is, shouldn’t a router drop any packet from the outside world that has a destination address in a reserved block?)
More interesting/annoying is that after 120s the page refreshes to the same page, not the bogus address they promised me.
Looks like someone at Sourceforge misconfigured something. I went to their site and immediately noticed this:
I bet it’s something along the lines of they moved their servers behind a load balancer (at 172.29.29.1), and their anti-flooding software got confused because suddenly every request was coming from 172.29.29.1.