[swinog] mirror.switch.ch overloaded?

2006-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Martin Ebnoether
Hi all. I was just wondering why my favourite source of free software has been overloaded over the past few days. I'm talking about the FTP server of mirror.switch.ch[1]. It seems I cannot login because too many anonymous users are already logged in. Is it some attack or maintenance?

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch overloaded?

2006-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Martin Ebnoether
Tonnerre LOMBARD schrieb: Hoi. [mirror.switch.ch swamped] I've seen the same problem; it seems to be the usual overload due to all those Bebbian users. (To every one of them: Please use ftp.ch.bebbian.org if you are looking for something to put into your /etc/apt/sources.list.) Why would

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch overloaded?

2006-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Peter Baumann
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:51 +0100, Martin Ebnoether wrote: Hi all. I was just wondering why my favourite source of free software has been overloaded over the past few days. I'm talking about the FTP server of mirror.switch.ch[1]. It seems I cannot login because too many anonymous users

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch overloaded?

2006-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:51:07PM +0100, Martin Ebnoether wrote: As a Linux Guru you should know that today, Fedora Core 5 came out. Maybe it's because of this? I doubt that this has had such a big impact on that server's performance. Even more since it is swamped from last sunday

Re: [swinog] mirror.switch.ch overloaded?

2006-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Andrea Tognola
--On 21 March 2006 12:51:56 +0100 Peter Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a Linux Guru you should know that today, Fedora Core 5 came out. Maybe it's because of this? Hi, Yes, this is very possible; after looking at the transfer statistics Fedora is first by number of hits (600'000)