That's pretty dumb, because those are delivered by an external service, i.e. not our server. All they could ever achieve, is reach our paid quota. Which, quite frankly, no, they won't.
Most stupid DDOS attack
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- u-he
- 30247 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Some idiot tries to kill our server by downloading Zebra again and again and again - from IPs in China, Egypt and who knows where.
That's pretty dumb, because those are delivered by an external service, i.e. not our server. All they could ever achieve, is reach our paid quota. Which, quite frankly, no, they won't.
That's pretty dumb, because those are delivered by an external service, i.e. not our server. All they could ever achieve, is reach our paid quota. Which, quite frankly, no, they won't.
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- KVRAF
- 12250 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
It wasn't me. I was just trying to get Diva 1.3. Damn, foiled again. 
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
You have to wonder about the mentality...
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- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30247 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
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- KVRian
- 777 posts since 13 Dec, 2011
That wouldn't explain the use of IPs across the globe, though. Perhaps someone is using some kind of privacy-enhancing re-routing tool (like Tor) that is somehow failing to complete a download? Then again, it could also be a stock holder of your CDN, running bots to make sure you keep your current paid quota. 
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- KVRAF
- 24455 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
Maybe they use Zebras to change a lightbulb in China? 
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- Banned
- 10196 posts since 12 Mar, 2012 from the Bavarian Alps to my feet and the globe around my head
Maybe some Petshop Boys are selling Zebras to the whole world? 
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- KVRAF
- 6467 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
Why not block those IP addresses in .htaccess?
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- KVRAF
- 1924 posts since 15 Oct, 2008 from Germany
I hope he'll upload all those Zebras again. What if we run out of Zeebs??
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- KVRAF
- 2158 posts since 11 Oct, 2007 from Almanya
Someone's fallen asleep on the F5 key again.
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- KVRAF
- 1617 posts since 11 Dec, 2008 from Minneapolis
As I'm on a mission to make sure the word 'twerking' survives and expands in usage, I want to point out that DDOS is basically twerking on someone's protocol.
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- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30247 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
We can't - it's not on our server, we just link to it.Frantz wrote:Why not block those IP addresses in .htaccess?
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- KVRAF
- 6467 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
I wonder if your service provider could block the IPs if you opened a support ticket.Urs wrote:We can't - it's not on our server, we just link to it.
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- Topic Starter
- 30247 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
We can block the lack of a referrer. But then no-one can deep link into our downloads.Frantz wrote:I wonder if your service provider could block the IPs if you opened a support ticket.Urs wrote:We can't - it's not on our server, we just link to it.
It's really not much of a problem as it is. it's just a waste of bandwidth for whoever (or whatever) thinks it has to download that file over and over again and again.