It seems to me that this Fernando person was the one who did it. I mean, re-read his email. Sounds like a threat to me. " I´d be saddened to see it disappear..." And now it's gone because one person is downloading it all the time. But since we know one person is doing it - can't we just block that IP and move on? I don't understand why the site is still down. <div>On 2/28/06, Nathan Eady <<a href="mailto:eady@galion.lib.oh.us">eady@galion.lib.oh.us</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jon Phillips wrote: > again (kees) and he found that there is a one person who is basically > trying to download our packages every 5-10 seconds which is equal to a > DDoS attack. You know, you would _think_ that a mature package like Apache would have options to limit the effective percentage of your available bandwidth that can be consumed from any given Class-A subnet, or somesuch along those lines. Come to think of it, isn't that pretty much exactly what mod_throttle does? Maybe we should look into that. Are we really so high-profile that someone wants to expend bandwidth doing a DOS attack on us? I would be _very_ curious to know what subnet that was coming from, and whether it is associated with any entity that might have a plausible motive for this, e.g., some commerical clip-art site. (If so, a full write-up of the incident could probably get us a good and proper slashdotting, whenever we tell the story, i.e., at a time of our choosing. Such an opportunity should not be wasted.) _______________________________________________ clipart mailing list <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart"> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart</a> </blockquote></div> -- - Chad Smith <a href="http://www.gimpshop.net/">http://www.gimpshop.net/</a> <a href="http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/"> http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/</a> Because everyone loves free software!