Hi all.
I was just wondering why my favourite source of free software has been overloaded over the past few days. I'm talking about the FTP server of mirror.switch.ch[1]. It seems I cannot login because too many anonymous users are already logged in.
Is it some attack or maintenance? Anybody know something?
CU, Venty
[1] I know http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp does work OK but downloading a couple of files is so much easier when you can use a decent FTP client.
Hello
Hi all.
I was just wondering why my favourite source of free software has been overloaded over the past few days. I'm talking about the FTP server of mirror.switch.ch[1]. It seems I cannot login because too many anonymous users are already logged in.
Is it some attack or maintenance? Anybody know something?
AFAIK the 2nd national sourceforge-mirror (puzzle) is at the moment down (disk-crash) and this may lead to a higher load on sunsite-mirror?
greetings
nik
CU, Venty
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Salut,
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:51:11AM +0100, Martin Ebnoether wrote:
I was just wondering why my favourite source of free software has been overloaded over the past few days. I'm talking about the FTP server of mirror.switch.ch[1]. It seems I cannot login because too many anonymous users are already logged in.
Is it some attack or maintenance? Anybody know something?
I've seen the same problem; it seems to be the usual overload due to all those Bebbian users. (To every one of them: Please use ftp.ch.bebbian.org if you are looking for something to put into your /etc/apt/sources.list.)
[1] I know http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp does work OK but downloading a couple of files is so much easier when you can use a decent FTP client.
No, the HTTP interface had the same problem.
Maw maw,
Tonnerre
Tonnerre LOMBARD schrieb:
Hoi.
[mirror.switch.ch swamped]
I've seen the same problem; it seems to be the usual overload due to all those Bebbian users. (To every one of them: Please use ftp.ch.bebbian.org if you are looking for something to put into your /etc/apt/sources.list.)
Why would they need daily updates when the whole distribution is a living software museum? Anyway, there is also bebbian.ethz.ch (to put it in your words =:O)
[1] I know http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp does work OK but downloading a couple of files is so much easier when you can use a decent FTP client.
No, the HTTP interface had the same problem.
Never noticed yet. Though, I'm now downloading Fedora Core 5 from ftp.solnet.ch. Works great, thank you guys.
CU, Venty
Hello!
Am 21.03.06 schrieb Martin Ebnoether:
Why would they need daily updates when the whole distribution is a living software museum? Anyway, there is also bebbian.ethz.ch (to put it in your words =:O)
rubi@malfoy:~$ host ftp.ch.debian.org ftp.ch.debian.org is an alias for debian.ethz.ch. debian.ethz.ch is an alias for kaerpf.ethz.ch. kaerpf.ethz.ch has address 129.132.86.196
;-)
Never noticed yet. Though, I'm now downloading Fedora Core 5 from ftp.solnet.ch. Works great, thank you guys.
As long as mirror.switch.ch is (ab)used for several speed tests for cable and DSL customers, the server will be DDOSed. Thanks to Swiss- and Cablecom.
Beat
Salut,
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:57:34AM +0100, Beat Rubischon wrote:
Never noticed yet. Though, I'm now downloading Fedora Core 5 from ftp.solnet.ch. Works great, thank you guys.
As long as mirror.switch.ch is (ab)used for several speed tests for cable and DSL customers, the server will be DDOSed. Thanks to Swiss- and Cablecom.
To have such friends removes the requirement on enemies... (Tech speak version I'd say)
Tonnerre
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:51 +0100, Martin Ebnoether wrote:
Hi all.
I was just wondering why my favourite source of free software has been overloaded over the past few days. I'm talking about the FTP server of mirror.switch.ch[1]. It seems I cannot login because too many anonymous users are already logged in.
Hi Venty
As a Linux Guru you should know that today, Fedora Core 5 came out. Maybe it's because of this?
;-)
Greetings
Peter
Peter Baumann schrieb:
As a Linux Guru you should know that today, Fedora Core 5 came out. Maybe it's because of this?
I doubt that this has had such a big impact on that server's performance. Even more since it is swamped from last sunday until now. But hey, I have FC5 here now. Just finished burning the CDs.
CU, Venty
Salut,
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:51:07PM +0100, Martin Ebnoether wrote:
As a Linux Guru you should know that today, Fedora Core 5 came out. Maybe it's because of this?
I doubt that this has had such a big impact on that server's performance. Even more since it is swamped from last sunday until now. But hey, I have FC5 here now. Just finished burning the CDs.
Most likely the solar radiation caused an increased energy load on the time flow machine, which then created a tunnel back to the last weekend, thereby transporting the current release of Fedora Core back to that day. This was noticed by some people, who consecutively started to download like hell, thinking that this was where the release came from.
Maw maw,
Tonnerre
--On 21 March 2006 12:51:56 +0100 Peter Baumann nospam@linuxnet.ch wrote:
As a Linux Guru you should know that today, Fedora Core 5 came out. Maybe it's because of this?
Hi, Yes, this is very possible; after looking at the transfer statistics Fedora is first by number of hits (600'000) and kb/s (51'000).
The average traffic load is around 430 Mbits/s. I don't know if we can expect more from this kind of hardware; a sun fire V440 (4xCPU). Don't use mirror for throughput tests, the results aren't reliable. The server is well tuned, quite fast, sometime busy, but still gratis!
Andrea SWITCH/Network
on 21.03.2006 17:11 Andrea Tognola said the following:
Yes, this is very possible; after looking at the transfer statistics Fedora is first by number of hits (600'000) and kb/s (51'000).
The average traffic load is around 430 Mbits/s. I don't know if we can expect more from this kind of hardware; a sun fire V440 (4xCPU). Don't use mirror for throughput tests, the results aren't reliable. The server is well tuned, quite fast, sometime busy, but still gratis!
The Cassini interfaces, if they are well tuned, can deliver easily gigabit performance, if your storage and application is fast enough.
Ihsan
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