On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 12:54:10PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
An exception to this would be people building containers.
Theytypically remove the metadata at the end of each build. So do not
have it cached. However, the described behaviour would seem to be
more widespread than some people building containers, which may
indicate some other reason that a group of people are repeatedly
grabbing the same data. It would be interesting to know if they are
only getting repodata or also downloading rpms and other things.
Interesting thought! I just grepped for a few of the "abusive" hosts.
These hosts are downloading packages, including some "basic" ones like
perl, curl, python setuptools.
I'll relax the fail2ban rules a bit and see how things evolve over time.
Maybe everyone needs to rebuild everything once now, which obviously
causes a bit of traffic.
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