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

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:55:29PM -0400, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> 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,

What distro & yum is this? Package headers are not even offered
anymore on any active distro, are they?

> 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

I see that this IP was blocked with 33 and 31 connections 1192578866
(Tue 16 Oct 2007 23:54:26 UTC) and 1192578866 (Wed 17 Oct 2007
20:36:00 UTC) resp.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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