On 11/21/2017 4:56 AM, A. Schulze wrote:
I use sa-update to update all channels I use. From what I've seen on
"sa-update --debug" the default is to test an dns-record.
( "dig 1.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org. txt" for the main channel )
If the DNS answer indicate the same version no HTTP requests are done.
So it SHOULD not hurt to call sa-update more frequently UNLESS one
have specific scripts that directly connect to the updateservers via
http.
is this assumtion right?
Yes, that assumption is correct. Hence why single IPs downloading files
1 million times from a single mirror is a problem. And no, that's not
an exaggeration.
My conjecture is some people have setup minute cron jobs and the
installation is failing so it is downloading over and over and over.
It's a complete guess but I appreciate people speaking up.
Regards,
KAM
