Hi Kevin,

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:08:33PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

How are you determining this? From IP address?

Yes.

Those could be a large number of different machines behind a nat proxy no?

Possibly.

Recent versions of fedora do not even download the filelists unless a user requests/looks up something that needs it. For normal install or updates, it shouldn't be pulled. Can you tell what OS/versions this is happening with?

Great! No, I just see basic file download information. Blocking those who do it much too often shouldn't be a concern then.

In general clients should pull the repomd.xml file and check if it's changed, if not, use their cached versions.

That's not what I see for quite a lot of peers.

This should normally already be the case, so I wonder what is happening here, could be a bug in some version/os or otherwise something unexpected.

That's my guess too.

Bye Carsten