Hi Stuart, there are some techniques that your ISP can apply to prevent this behavior.
If they are open to suggestions it will be my pleasure to help them. []'s Hamilton Vera On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Stuart Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I need your help. As you may recall, there have been some issues this > month with bandwidth use. > > The logs showed that on one day (18th April) a single IP address > downloaded over 1 terabyte of data. After a long tussle with the > support team at the ISP, they agreed that it wasn't possible that > someone downloaded a terabyte in 24 hours and they chopped out the > offending entries from the access log for that day, which effectively > reset bitshrine.orgs bandwidth counters. > > Anyhow, this is merely treating the symptom, not the cause. What I > think is happening is that someone has a misbehaving script that > attempts to download a file, immediately gives up and then retries the > same download in a loop forever. > > What I would like to to do is to think if any of you have: > > * Written a script that could misbehave > > * Have a "new" version of ltib that shows this kind of odd behaviour (I > doubt this as the client looks like a Windows NT .NET client). > > * Have a theory to explain this. > > To help you get your head around this, a section of one of the logs is > attached. > > TIA, Stuart > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LTIB home page: http://ltib.org > > Ltib mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ltib > > -- Hamilton Vera int Administrator (char Network[],char ComputationalSystems[]) http://hvera.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ LTIB home page: http://ltib.org Ltib mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ltib
