Lacking any specific venue for those who run mirrors of the OpenSolaris bits, I have a question for those who do.
I run a mirror of the OpenSolaris ISOs at http://os.elemental.org/ and since setting it up for the community to use, I've noticed a huge amount of connections from a particular IP range - 222.129/14. Once a day on average I see my server get inundated with a huge amount of requests (200+ concurrent) for the ISOs from this IP range. Some of the connections download the ISOs in full, some only partially before disconnecting and then reconnecting. The process repeats itself for a few hours and then goes away. The user-agent given by these HTTP clients is a bit suspect - they try to pass themselves off as MSIE on Windows XP, but lack any of the hotfix numbers and other info one would expect to see in a typical, real, connection from MSIE, so this stuff seems spoofed. Have any other OpenSolaris ISO mirror maintainers seen similar happenings? Of the vhosts I run, it's only this one that sees this sort of tomfoolery, and I had not seen it prior to offering this public mirror. I've resorted to ipfiltering the entire /14, so the problem is "solved" for at least the time-being. /dale _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
