[mirror-admin] fedora live images dos attack?

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:38:55PM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> >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!!!

See the instructions for how to redirect these to FTP at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring.


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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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