gitlab under attack

Since a while we’ve noticed our public gitlab server being targeted from various places on the internet, it looks like a DDOS or it could be a lot of AI agents scraping data. Whatever the reason, it is harming regular users normal way of working. Therefore we have implemented an agressive blocking strategy, which can block large parts of the ip range of the internet for a limited time. To compensate for the problems this causes, we have also implemented a fixed allowlist to prevent known friendly ranges from being blocked in this way. If you are cooperating with groups of people who experience this blocking mechanism, please inform us of ip ranges you would like to have included in the allowlist.