On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
an example - adsl2+ brings in approx 16Mbps downstram, thats plenty of connectivity for most offices with <= 50 employes who mostly only do :80/:443 sort of traffic, with some other things like :22 and maybe rsync. They should perhaps consider setting up local repo's within their facility, but many lack the resources to do so.
I think this is getting well offtopic, but what the heck.
Is it 'reasonable' for such an organization to be generating more than 5 active connections to a single upstream mirror? And that too after receiving a 503 service unavailable message? That is what it will take to get on the netblock list for an hour. You may disagree, but I think this is a reasonable restriction to keep the server available and protected from (ab)users.
How about turning off 'RANGE' requests in httpd ? is that an option.
Maybe it was a version thing, but the url rewriting did not work on the server in question.