[Wikitech-l] sites using our bandwidth

2011-01-21 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
Hello, The squid statistics report show us that some site are leaking our bandwidth. How to tell? They have a huge number of images referral and barely none for pages. One example: In December, channelsurfing.net has been seen as a referrer for: - 1000 pages roughly - 1 740 000 images

Re: [Wikitech-l] sites using our bandwidth

2011-01-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 January 2011 22:49, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Given the cost in bandwidth, hard drives, CPU, architecture ... I do think we should find a solution to block thoses sites as much as possible.  Would it be possible at the squid level? Given we actively endorse hotlinking

Re: [Wikitech-l] sites using our bandwidth

2011-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
Ashar Voultoiz wrote: The squid statistics report show us that some site are leaking our bandwidth. How to tell? They have a huge number of images referral and barely none for pages. One example: In December, channelsurfing.net has been seen as a referrer for: - 1000 pages roughly

Re: [Wikitech-l] sites using our bandwidth

2011-01-21 Thread OQ
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: You're talking about hotlinking, right? Looking at the page source of channelsurfing.net, they're clearly hotlinking quite a bit. But as David notes, we generally encourage our content to be spread and used. I particularly

Re: [Wikitech-l] sites using our bandwidth

2011-01-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 January 2011 23:31, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: If they're linking to images we legitimately host and which meet our image guidelines, are used in WP or other WMF projects, etc, then ... Shrug.  I didn't realize we were ok with hotlinking like that, but if that's the

Re: [Wikitech-l] sites using our bandwidth

2011-01-21 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 January 2011 23:31, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: If they're linking to images we legitimately host and which meet our image guidelines, are used in WP or other WMF projects, etc, then ... Shrug.  I