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

[Steve Hsieh]

On 10/14/07, 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.



 Axel,

I am having the same problem. For me, the problem is that I only update my
system once in a blue moon, and not daily.

I have two machines behind a NAT firewall, but I only run updates manually
on a single machine, and wait for it to complete before updating the second
machine.  I use 'yum update' on a single machine, and when yum goes through
downloading all of the package headers, I get locked out before the update
is complete. If I wait until the next day, and run 'yum update' again, then
it will successfully retreive the remaining headers and the rest of the
transfer will be successful.

The IP address I was downloading from was 71.224.245.165, and the
approximate unix time was 1192660560 (roughly) corresponding to Oct 17 22:36
GMT

Thanks,
Steve
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