We've seen the same chinese IPs downloading the DVD iso's 24/7 with like 10-20 concurrent connections, sometimes using upwards of 300Mbit/sec. We dropped supporting the DVD downloads and implemented systems to ban such malicious activity. There's no way this is a 'download accelerator'. Someone or some ISP is trying to generate traffic (for whatever reason, maybe to meet peering quotas), and using our DVD mirrors as an easy method.
-- Randy www.FastServ.com
---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Administrador" admin@mail.idl3.net To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." centos-mirror@centos.org Sent: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:04:09 +0100 Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Please remove from mirror list: mirrors.bigtennetwork.com/CentOS
Dear Ralph.
At the moment we as mirror, if that decision is taken (before it will exhaust all possible options) will be officially communicated. Therefore, we continue like mirror.
Regards
José A. Crespo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Angenendt" ralph.angenendt@gmail.com To: centos-mirror@centos.org Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Please remove from mirror list: mirrors.bigtennetwork.com/CentOS
Okay, apart from the mail account and password identity theft (which really cannot be a problem with you mirroring CentOS): Do you want to stay on the mirrorlist, but are reconsidering or do you want to be taken off the list because of you getting too much traffic?
CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror
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