[CentOS-mirror] Abusive repodata downloads

Wed Apr 3 13:09:34 UTC 2024
Carsten Otto <otto at informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 08:45:57AM -0400, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> If you for debugging purposes and then turn it off again it would be
> helpful. There are multiple tools which can download this data from a
> 'client' point of view and some of them are going to be 'buggy'.

Downloads a few files about once a minute:

libdnf (Rocky Linux 8.8; generic; Linux.x86_64)

/fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
/fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/0e32b3c58c14790acdb973f20a4b2207e24720222513b0bc63297a649a9884a8-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml
/fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/cf47b564c8fa629069ef0f0836dda95fff05e077068eb3e9ed554c343581be84-prestodelta.xml.xz 
/fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/6f0dd08e0df456c5c28d4f776aa71b4bb6d0e4bce4e4bf3423260efdd4b7af2b-updateinfo.xml.bz2
/fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/1f3bb463d1f38d18f6af974e8353b7e8ad7f368686a462c94d664541f00c7c39-primary.xml.gz 
/fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/20761194528ef5ba68ccab20ed7ab3f9303c81ebc562f9dca772a7f20db59dd8-filelists.xml.gz

Similar issue, different user:

libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.3; generic; Linux.x86_64)

/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml 
/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/8768391f4f5cb0daebfd4f6103704b325933733c458df8f261b1e47601f81afc-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml.gz 
/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/881a09d92cdb4078eed6995d8e2c48304c4a36011b6fdc695bc19705f86ab2fe-updateinfo.xml.bz2 
/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/a38ae61a2abfb200cdc4a796f5478c8bcbba4b6a222ab46e7893d9879760734a-primary.xml.gz 
/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/b2cd153314a9aed419fa6adf682c85503be7b6045772bf6cfffef2a4f6fd19fb-filelists.xml.gz 

This user downloads other files, also about once a minute (via HTTP 2.0):

urlgrabber/3.10 yum/3.4.3

/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml 
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/b067b70cf45ef66ab62dc5661b802249f45756ef620528ccf9843d04ca6da83b-updateinfo.xml.bz2 
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/11ce2dc3bd977b1cbb9acccf51629f6d07ee9c191fecd960ee82df1d307ef3cb-primary.sqlite.bz2 

I'll provide more examples as soon as they pour in.
-- 
Dr. Carsten Otto
http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/
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