[mirror-admin] fedora live images dos attack?

[Prof. P. Sriram]

dear fedora mirror colleagues,

we (ftp.iitm.ac.in) have recently become an official fedora mirror; we
were very happy to note the increase in traffic when fedora 9 was released
a few days ago. however, a review of the logs shows what appears to be a
dos attack. we are getting thousands of requests for http downloads of the
fedora 9 live cd images from a handful of ip addresses in mainland china.  
for example, 222.129.36.242 made over 20,000 requests for this live cd
image over a 24 hour period. a few more such sites have contributed a
total of over 200,000 hits on the live cd images over the last few days.
is anyone else seeing such strange activity? i have temporarily taken the
live cd images off line (sorry, legit downloaders).

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sriram

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