Hi Chris, I tried locate the IP address (comes from Shenyang) but have no idea of who it is. There are some P2P tools like Thunder in China that may cause terrible large amount of traffic. I guess if some one is using such tools in an improper way. Is it possible to disable p2p on your website and just allow one connection per IP? Or maybe you could make use of some installer utility that will hide the real download link (for example, my work :-)
Regards, Wang Rui 2011/5/9 Chris 'Xenon' Hanson <[email protected]>: > I just blocked IP address 119.118.237.180, because it was hammering my > webserver with > bizarre traffic, requesting the same file(s) over and over. > > I recall the VTP website was hammered by similar traffic a few years ago and > ended up > costing Ben a gigantic excess-bandwidth bill. > > I imagine this is not intentional, but probably the result of a batch WGET or > FileZilla-like tool, combined perhaps with a poorly-operating proxy or > firewall, but it > left my webserver with hundreds of stuck Apache processes, and none of my web > pages were > accessible. > > Wang Rui, can you tell from your expertise who this might be? I'd like to > get in contact > with them and make sure they can get the data they need, without destroying > my webserver. > I don't want to prohibit batch downloads, but I do need to protect my system > from being > overwhelmed, either accidentally or abusively. > > -- > Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere. [email protected] > http://www.alphapixel.com/ > Digital Imaging. OpenGL. Scene Graphs. GIS. GPS. Training. Consulting. > Contracting. > "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - > Xen > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
