On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:48:23AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> Some people have been abusing my mirror by making multiple connections
> (as many as 8) and downloading different hunks of the same thing.  Using
> up all of my available bandwidth.  One individual I caught doing this
> tonight has been blocked from accessing my mirror.  (It's unfortunate
> for him I happened to walk past the router when I did).
> 
> If I see it happening again I'll throttle download speeds on a per host
> basis to prevent people from doing this anymore.  I don't really want to
> have to do that.

Well it's fixed now.  The mirror has been configured to only allow 2
concurrent downloads per ip.  It's unfortunate that I had to waste my
time figuring out how to limit people from abusing this.  But such is
life.

-- 
Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://ben.reser.org

"If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard
enough." - Jim Nichols

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