[SAC] osgeo.org outage + 'fix'

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
...
> though we should probably
>  investigate a more automatic solution than "notice the server is dead,
>  and block the offending IP address."

I have used successfully "mod_cband" in the past when some crazy
people tried to download 1TB per day from grass.itc.it:
http://modules.apache.org/search?id=899

You define how much can be downloaded in a given period and
then offending IPs are getting automatically blocked for a definable
period. This could get out the worst offenders at least, setting things
with large margin, without troubling the rest of us.

best
Markus