OK, I dug in deeper, a few more insights.
end of February / early March:
- 30k-40k hits for /fedora-epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml,
comps-Everything.x86_64.xml, -filelists.xml.gz, ...
- 10k hits or so for the same in /7/
end of March / early April:
- around 30k hits for /8/ and /9/ files
- 400k-700k (!) for /7/
Top hitters:
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/37f85d91d087d574c4551a96731a6e8f2d6b2a458d364901fdeb7858e6fc7950-updateinfo.xml.bz2
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/37f85d91d087d574c4551a96731a6e8f2d6b2a458d364901fdeb7858e6fc7950-updateinfo.xml.bz2
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/6111d049c4d53fc00176b3da63856b580c6a34f1b7a2062ccf821988d095ec44-updateinfo.xml.bz2
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/6fa65768495a2a46eff12c510acc23d4df39a85df14958ac5bfea0f758d9a43a-primary.sqlite.bz2
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/e52552f46d9f450b7b5966d4cdafdc58769eda686fc2d9a4c44beb441b122453-primary.sqlite.bz2
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/e52552f46d9f450b7b5966d4cdafdc58769eda686fc2d9a4c44beb441b122453-primary.sqlite.bz2
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
It looks like the number of requests for the /7/ files picked up during
March, but a sudden increase happened around March 28th.
It looks like traffic jumped up due to downloads of "-filelists.xml" files
at that time, but I also see lots of traffic for "-primary.sqlite" and
"-updateinfo".
That's about the time when the libxz mess become public.
When did you start shipping security updates to SSH/liblzma/...?
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Dr. Carsten Otto
http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/