[PATCH] handle Amazon EC2 client yum misconfiguration

[Matt Domsch]

EC2 clients with malformed yum URLs are hitting us a lot.  Kill those
requests at the proxy servers to keep them from hitting MM.

diff --git a/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb b/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
index bd576ce..3b7fdcc 100644
--- a/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
+++ b/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ RequestHeader set CP-Location /mirrormanager
 Alias /releases.txt /srv/web/mirrors/releases.txt

RewriteEngine On
+# BEGIN hack for misconfigured Amazon EC2 clients      
+RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basea$ - [F]
+# END hack
 RewriteRule ^/publiclist(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/publiclist/$1 [P,L]
 RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/mirrorlist$1 [P,L]
 RewriteRule ^/metalink(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/metalink$1 [P,L]

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 10 May 2010, Matt Domsch wrote:
> EC2 clients with malformed yum URLs are hitting us a lot.  Kill those
> requests at the proxy servers to keep them from hitting MM.
>
> diff --git a/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb b/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
> index bd576ce..3b7fdcc 100644
> --- a/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
> +++ b/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
> @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ RequestHeader set CP-Location /mirrormanager
>  Alias /releases.txt /srv/web/mirrors/releases.txt
>
> RewriteEngine On
> +# BEGIN hack for misconfigured Amazon EC2 clients
> +RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basea$ - [F]
> +# END hack
>  RewriteRule ^/publiclist(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/publiclist/$1 [P,L]
>  RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/mirrorlist$1 [P,L]
>  RewriteRule ^/metalink(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/metalink$1 [P,L]

+1.   Down with basea!

-Mike

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 10 May 2010, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > EC2 clients with malformed yum URLs are hitting us a lot.  Kill those
> > requests at the proxy servers to keep them from hitting MM.
> >
> > diff --git a/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb b/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
> > index bd576ce..3b7fdcc 100644
> > --- a/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
> > +++ b/modules/mirrormanager/templates/mirrormanager-mirrorlist.conf.erb
> > @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ RequestHeader set CP-Location /mirrormanager
> >  Alias /releases.txt /srv/web/mirrors/releases.txt
> >
> > RewriteEngine On
> > +# BEGIN hack for misconfigured Amazon EC2 clients
> > +RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basea$ - [F]
> > +# END hack
> >  RewriteRule ^/publiclist(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/publiclist/$1 [P,L]
> >  RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/mirrorlist$1 [P,L]
> >  RewriteRule ^/metalink(.*) <%= proxyurl %>/metalink$1 [P,L]
>
> +1.   Down with basea!

+1 All your basea are belong to us!

-sv