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

[Tim Fenn]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:32:49 +0300 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:37:36PM -0700, Tim Fenn wrote:
> > I've been using dl.atrpms.net to update, but it seems to go down
> > rather frequently, and strangely enough, usually right in the
> > middle of downloading updates.  Am I doing something wrong, or is
> > the site having issues?
> 
> There is a DoS protection set in place to prevent issue like the
> recent one that slowed down ATrpms to a crawl.
> 
> If there are more than 30 or so simultaneous connections from the same
> IP it usually means trouble for the rest of the world, so these IPs
> get blacklisted for a short while. Maybe you fire up too many updates
> on too many systems at once fro behind a NAT? Then perhaps a web proxy
> or even a local mirror would be of help. Or you just put some time
> delay between the update calls, e.g. serializing the updates.
> 

I wondered if it was filtering connections based on that.  Its been
happening on one host that requires a good deal of updates, and I'm
using smart - which starts up several simultaneous download threads,
although I didn't think it would be more than 30 at one time.

> If that's not the case, please send me you IP and the approximate time
> when this happened, so I can check the logs (time is best sent in date
> +%s format).

I'll give it another go, if it happens again I'll send along the info.

Regards,
tim