[CentOS-mirror] Abusive repodata downloads

Wed Apr 3 12:38:17 UTC 2024
Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen at redhat.com>

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 04:33, Carsten Otto <otto at informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:08:33PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > In general clients should pull the repomd.xml file and check if it's
> > changed, if not, use their cached versions.
>
> Does this also apply to this file?
>
> /fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/f25bccaa54b08e731162aec431dd82887a5ed1abce8eb6f892ad41454f07e1f3-primary.sqlite.bz2
>
> I have five hosts which each downloaded 4 GByte of this file in the span
> of 24 hours. The delay between two downloads varies, from a few seconds
> to a few minutes.
>

Can you give the full httpd string (remove the ip address). This might help
figure out if it is a specific version of a tool which is the problem or if
it is a generic issue.



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