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

[john bray]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 02:39 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:57:15AM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2007 1:59 AM, Karl Grindley <karl at spacechimp.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Another IP blocked?  Note that I haven't hit atrpms in weeks, until this
> > > morning to find atrpms dropping packets. (from 71.174.103.34)
> 
> This had 40 connections.
> 
> > Honestly, I know believe that the solution is worse than the problem ...
> > 
> > Blocking legitimate users just to prevent an extremely occasional DOS
> > is just unacceptable
> 
> Actually the scripts are not for the occasional DoS, but for the
> download accelerators people use every 6 months on Fedora release
> times to suck down the isos faster than others. I just need to wait
> for 5 minutes these days to find IP addresses doing 100+ connections
> with range based http gets to get all the server resources for
> themselves to pull down the isos as fast as possible (for them).
> 
> And the scripts are not new, I'm using them since about FC3 or
> FC4. What is new is yum's rebroken behaviour. Ask google for yum and
> CLOSE_WAIT (or keepalive code) and one will see that it has a bad
> history.

this seems to be a yum problem.  i've never had that happen to me with
smart.  and, i sure don't wish to find atrpms clogged up with a single
user -- that's just not fair to all the rest of us.

other people have said it in the past, as i far as i can remember...but
the only real solution to this is to use smart instead of yum.  and the
smart gui is just wonderful, and an added bonus of switching!  it's not
perfect, and no, i don't hate yum -- i use it occasionally still.

but, allowing a broken tool to keep other users from using a repo just
isn't a reasonable thing to do.


john
-- 
cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.