Copying sf reply to Debian bug #1033632 , as requested by pabs, to enable Debian members to analyze. donfede On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 08:35:03AM -0600, SourceForge.net Support & Ops wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for contacting us. We do actually allow much more than one per > 30 minutes, but if you are running into 429 Too Many Request status codes, > we can work with you to possibly allow more. > > We've checked our logs for the past week and see 209.87.16.61 with > user-agent "Python-httplib2/$Rev$" has hit a couple of RSS feeds, but has > not received any 429 status from our rate limits. > > There is an IPv6 address 2607:f8f0:614:1::1274:73 (which is also > qa.debian.org it seems) that is sending a lot of traffic. Nearly all of it > is with a user-agent of "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-us) > AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko)", and hitting non-RSS feeds, it is > hitting /projects/dispcalgui/files/... URLs over and over. A different > pattern from that address does hit RSS feeds and has no user agent. I > think that if you are able to identify and stop the traffic hitting > /projects/dispcalgui/files/... URLs then your RSS feed checking would be > able to get through. Alternatively, separate your RSS feed script onto a > separate IP/ipv6 address. A last recommendation would be to set a > user-agent header on your RSS feed scripts, that would be helpful (but not > necessary). > > > Sincerely, > > SourceForge Support > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 12:29 PM Federico Grau <donfede@casagrau.org> wrote: > > > > > Hello sfnet_ops -- > > > > I am Fede Grau, contacting you on behalf of the Debian community. We are > > seeking support from SourceForge Ops with recent RSS feed rate limit > > changes. > > In particular if an "IP exception" may be created for Debian "watch" checks > > for package updates. > > > > > > Reviewing the SourceForge Support Documentation we see there is now an RSS > > feed rate limit of "one hit per feed per 30 minutes". Unfortunately this > > is > > adversely affecting the Debian "watch" checks for updates of Free and Open > > Source Software (FOSS) packages hosted at SourceForge. The Debian project > > is > > tracking this issue with Bug #1033632 . > > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/RSS/ > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1033632 > > > > > > > > As noted above, we're checking if an IP exception may be created for RSS > > feed > > checks for the Debian project. The qa.debian.org host performing the > > "watch" > > checks very rarely changes IP address and is in the Debian IP range of: > > 209.87.16.0/24 . Feedback or questions are welcome. Thanks for your > > assistance. > > > > > > > > I happen to be one of the package maintainers for the `unixcw' FOSS package > > hosted at SourceForge, which has been affected by these RSS limits. > > > > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=donfede%40casagrau.org > > > > https://unixcw.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > regards, > > donfede > > > > Fede Grau > > > > > > -- I choose information and knowledge over profit.
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