[ATrpms-users] dl.atrpms.net connection problems

[Matthew Albright]

Since it's clear that your anti-DoS script is catching many legitimate users, would you consider upping the limits, or pursue alternate solutions (mod_evasive is one example)?

matt

----- Original Message ----
From: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
To: Mark Wormgoor <mark at wormgoor.com>
Cc: ATrpms user list <atrpms-users at atrpms.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:52:27 AM
Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] dl.atrpms.net connection problems


On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:43:56PM +0100, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > On 11/7/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> >> This looks like something is filtering away the FINs coming from
 your
> >> systems to ATrpms. I checked the local firewalls and they all
 properly
> >> pass FINs into the systems (and FIN/ACKs out as well).
> > 
> > So many people with the same issues ..
> > I too got banned on two different machines, two different internet
> > connections. Just doing yum install mythtv-suite
> > 
> > something is screwy here
> > Jean-Yves
> 
> Same issue here. Just did a "smart --shell -> upgrade" on 1 machine
 and 
> it got blocked at 90%. Could this be caused by smart downloading in 
> parallel? I have no specific settings set in smart.
> 
> Kind regards,

FWIW the current algorithm blocks on 60 total connections, or 40
non-TIME_WAIT. You can check with netstat -pan | grep ... how many
connections smart fired up.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net