pastyboy

I am seeing alot of these logs in my nginx access logs,

34.142.22.137 - - [01/Mar/2023:08:29:50 +0000] "GET /privacy-statement-cookie-policy HTTP/1.0" 200 160466 "-" "this joke will be pushed to production"

the IP reverse lookup is from googleusercontent.com 137.22.142.34.bc.googleusercontent.com

Has anyone ever seen this before, or is this something I need to be worrying about ?

Well after carefully examining the RedHat CentOS move, it has caused me huge despair, finally dawning on me after 20 years of using RedHat derivatives, that this is a hugely damaging move by RedHat/CentOS to me personally and the technology I have invested years of time in, they have pretty much killed private infrastructure in one move.

Everyone will now be looking to evacuate CentOS, not entirely sure how independent hosting companies are going to come back from this and what their strategies will be, any ideas are welcome.

Why in the world would anyone running KVM with 100s of VMs for development, build, infrastructure want to pay RHEL(IBM) $$$$$$$$ ?

Options so far are: Oracle Linux, unashamedly copy of RHEL (The enemy (oracle) of my enemy (IBM) is my friend ? long term option ?). Rocky Linux ?? can they pull off such a massive rebuild of the CentOS model, without it being impeded by IBM (legal). Ubuntu, have used but always gone for stability and trust with CentOS, time to reconsider. Move to GCE/AWS, still cheaper than private hosting running RedHat, all they have done is destroyed private hosting and infrastructure as an option.

linux, is linux, is linux so bye, bye IBM you ain't nothing unique or special.

This https://centos.rip/# sums it up for me.