Summary: An attempt to squash DDOS with standalone filters

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ue to the fact that Boycott Novell is made unavailable when flooded by requests from offending IPs, we are temporarily routing all traffic via Varnish proxy. It ought to filter out denial of service attempts.

This means that all requests will be channeled via the same IP address and thus our rating system will not work. Each item (post/comment) can only be rated once, for that single IP. Other things ought to function just as normal. If not, please do let us know. ⬆