[mirror-admin] fedora live images dos attack?

[susmit shannigrahi]

>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).



/me get it too...
http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/usage/usage_200805.html
On an eight hour window, I got 	2844 requests for F8 i386 Live cd, though we
do not offer http service at all...
To avoid that, I had to redirect all the .iso requests by http to an
error page!!!


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Regards,
Susmit.

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