> On Mar 16, 2022, at 10:55 AM, Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Joel Esler via clamav-users wrote: >>> On Mar 16, 2022, at 5:35 AM, Gary R. Schmidt <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> On 16/03/2022 20:19, Christoph Moench-Tegeder via clamav-users wrote: >>>> ## Joel Esler via clamav-users ([email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>): >>>>> Can’t use wget. >>>> Looks like "can't use anything which doesn't look like a web browser", >>>> as BSD fetch hits the 403, too. >>>> That's a major PITA on the BSD side (just like openSuse), but it >>>> was working just fine at the time of the 0.104.2 release (and all >>>> the time prior to that). Is there any reason behind making the source >>>> (not talking about the database files) inaccessible like that? >>> >>> Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained >>> by neglect, ignorance, or incompetence." >>> >>> With the added FLOSS variant, "or trying to show just how much smarter they >>> are than everybody else.” >> >> It was done because there are people that download the entire ClamAV package >> from the same every every 1 minute and do a complete reinstall. > > I still do not understand why rate limiting failed to solve this issue. > Was the problem technical or did policy mean it couldn't be used ?
Rate limiting mitigated it. It didn’t stop it. Data transfer is expensive. ClamAV is funded out of a larger budget, so expenses must be minded.
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