Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single
host.  Otherwise one person often ends up grabbing all the available
download slots.  Anyone want to look into a torrent?  Is there an easy
recipe for setting one up?  What's the bandwidth required to seed it?

Curt.


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Martin Spott wrote:

> Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> >> j...@kingmont.com wrote:
>
> >> Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message
> requiring
> >> a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at
> >> http://kingmont.com.
> >
> > The other two (official) mirrors have the same behaviour. Already for
> three days...
>
> Blame those idiots who are using "download managers" to create multiple
> connections to a single host (for a single file)
>
> Cheers,
>        Martin.
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