[SAC] osgeo.org outage + 'fix'

[Daniel Morissette]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 
> I found that there were many network connections open to 202.114.10.251
> (via netstat), and then got into HTTP logs to find that that IP address
> was repeatedly downloading specific files from the ossim SVN repository.
> 

Did most hits in the logs have a 206 status? If yes then that's a damn 
misconfigured download accelerator lanuching dozens of partial downloads 
on the same file, using up all available children, in addition to using 
lots of bandwidth... I've had lots of problems with those on the 
maptools download server.

http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ms4w-users/2007-October/000945.html

Daniel
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