On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:21:14 -0500, Nicholas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Prozilla (www-client/prozilla) is masked in Portage since 2004-11-22 > > because it suffered from a serious (and exploited) vulnerability[1] and > > lack of upstream love. > > Also because no one really likes it. It's a connection spamming > tool that really would do better to support multiple hosts as > opposed to trying to get around connection rate-limiting by > opening 5 connections to the same host. It's rather rude, really. > > --NJ
Exactly. Many hosts also now simply ban multiple connections or just set 1 connection per host, so prozilla just slows down download by retrying endlessly. Personally, I use axel that searches for mirrors and downloads from multiple hosts. -- [email protected] mailing list
