> On Mar 16, 2022, at 11:25 AM, Bowie Bailey via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > On 3/16/2022 10:09 AM, Joel Esler via clamav-users wrote: >> >>> On Mar 16, 2022, at 5:35 AM, Gary R. Schmidt <grschm...@acm.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 16/03/2022 20:19, Christoph Moench-Tegeder via clamav-users wrote: >>>> ## Joel Esler via clamav-users (clamav-users@lists.clamav.net): >>>>> 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. > > Why not simply block the IP addresses that are doing excessive downloads? > There can't be that many people who are doing constant rebuilds.
We did that for awhile. Didn’t scale. Dynamic IPs as well. > > The system I use for building ClamAV has no GUI. I download the files by > grabbing the URL from my desktop and then pasting it into a wget on the build > machine. Am I going to have to make wget spoof its user-agent every time I > need to update ClamAV? What happens when the people you were complaining > about start doing the same thing? Excessive downloaders get blocked. Simple as that.
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