Today, #facebook bots (Meta-ExternalAgent, you know, the one to train AI) took 21 days of wallclock time and 19.9 GB of bandwidth to index the development version of one of our websites for which crawling makes no sense and is explicitly forbidden by robots.txt.

Maybe it is a signal that we must spend some of _our_ time to make them lose more of _them's_. Any creative idea?

@feld Yep! There is also MDMessageCmd which is newer and offer more flexibility. I have yet to switch to it, for now I `/usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/service apache24 graceful` but the doc says that a reload will do the right thing (maybe it was not the case or at least not documented when I setup mod_md almost 5 years ago).

@feld 💯

I guess that the only thing that could be better is that the service take new certificates into account automagically instead of saying that a service restart is required in the logs.

@feld Oh crap, it is something on my list of things to look into and that does not sound good.

How long have you been fighting with it to use it in production?

@feld Which ones are the worst in your opinion?

I am annoyed by servers relaying my mail without implementing SRS, which break with a `-all` (fail) configuration (FreeBSD, Debian, to name a few). I wondered if I was an outrider, hence the poll.

Did you experience other annoyances?

@feld Bacula. Not user friendly, far from trivial to deploy, but predictable and consistent in its behavior, and I hate surprises… particularly those related to backups!