Hello,
I wanted to ask the list for some feedback on how to handle potential abuse of a mirror. I noticed the following activity:
[root@centos4 17:22:47] ~ cat /var/log/nginx/centos4.zswap.net.access.log | grep -i firefox | grep 1.2.3.4 | wc -l 935671
After some googling, The IP address is owned by a particular business, but I've redacted it here, to respect their privacy. Whilst it wouldn't be outrageous to have many systems running behind a NAT'd IP address needing updates, 935k requests for the firefox RPM seems a little over the top.
How do you all handle these kinds of things? Block their IP, reach out to them, or some other method?
I'd like to prevent this kind of activity, but not sure on the best approach to take. Obviously if I block them from my mirror, the behavior would most likely move over to someone else's.
Thoughts? Thanks
nzspiegel@e-dev.us kirjoitti 22.7.2019 klo 0.30:
Hello,
I wanted to ask the list for some feedback on how to handle potential abuse of a mirror. I noticed the following activity:
[root@centos4 17:22:47] ~ cat /var/log/nginx/centos4.zswap.net.access.log | grep -i firefox | grep 1.2.3.4 | wc -l 935671
After some googling, The IP address is owned by a particular business, but I've redacted it here, to respect their privacy. Whilst it wouldn't be outrageous to have many systems running behind a NAT'd IP address needing updates, 935k requests for the firefox RPM seems a little over the top.
How do you all handle these kinds of things? Block their IP, reach out to them, or some other method?
I'd like to prevent this kind of activity, but not sure on the best approach to take. Obviously if I block them from my mirror, the behavior would most likely move over to someone else's.
Thoughts?
I'd say to block the requests, and contact them and ask them to stop doing silly things. If they stop the requests, you can then remove the block.
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Anssi Johansson -
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