[CentOS-mirror] DOS attack downloading DVD isos
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Nov 26 10:39:10 UTC 2009
On 11/26/2009 03:06 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
> Redirecting ISO downloads to FTP
>
> Apache 2.x and earlier can't distribute files larger than 2GB. This
> means DVD images won't work.
We dont want people doing this - which is why we segregate DVD mirrors
from the others. If a mirror is doing this, they should only be listed
as a ftp mirror and not as someone doing http as well.
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