To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77684 Issue #|77684 Summary|DoS caused by Automatic Update Component|framework Version|OOo 2.1 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|tm Reported by|dirkroets
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 22 15:26:35 +0000 2007 ------- The automatic updater in this and possibly other versions of OO causes a DoS on proxy servers that requires authentication. It seems like the automatic updater in OO just keeps trying to access the update site regardless of the request being rejected by the proxy. We see many attempts to access the update site every second in the proxy logs. At one site a single OO workstation generated more than 25GB of proxy access logs just for this in a single month! At other sites we had problems where the proxy would regularly fail to serve legitimate requests due to the high load generated by 'n few OO clients on the network. The problem can easily be fixed by turning off automatic updates, but many of our clients don't know about this issue and leaves the setting at its default value. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
