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
