>> All servers using rules_du_jour failed today. Is this a residual side >> effect of the rulesemporium outages that occurred earlier?
> Yes. Looking at the new rule files would have given you the right > clue. Again -- I did a manual HTTP GET from another machine and indeed, there is no more Last-Modified header, see below my sig... Perhaps this is why we keep hitting the "502 Rate limiting in effect" error -- clients continually downloading all rules, getting themselves locked out in the process... It may not necessarily be a problem with the rate limiting in-and-of-itself. The rate-limit/http-blacklist is an understandable necessity, but "a few hours" added to the "continuing to re-request... will further increase the amount of time" is a little harsh nonetheless. I have several machines with alot of fsck'ed rules. Luckily, I have a spot that I only update manually and have some older copies of the rules that I use... -- Tim Wesemann ===================================== [<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>} telnet www.rulesemporium.com 80 Trying 69.56.160.30... Connected to www.rulesemporium.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /rules/70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf HTTP/1.1 Host: www.rulesemporium.com Referer: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:27:20 GMT Server: Apache Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 =====================================
