Re: Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation
Hi,
We are willing to host a mirror of the security site if it's not that big of
a deal to add a second server....
If it's really necessary we can even connect tit at gigabit...
Let me know if we can help
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Edward TLS
Tiscali NL
On 9/20/05 7:11 PM, "Martin Schulze" <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:
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> The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
> Security Host Bandwidth Saturation press@debian.org
> September 20th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050920
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> Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation
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> The recently released security update of XFree86 in DSA 816 for sarge
> and woody has caused the host security.debian.org to saturate its
> 100MBit/s network connection entirely. Due to the large number of X
> packages, the gross size of these packages and the high number of
> users who need to install the update, the server is busy sending out
> updates which exhaust its total outgoing bandwidth.
>
> This incident happens before new a security infrastructure is in place
> which would have avoided this. At the moment we ask our users to
> accept delays in their update until the situation is relaxed again.
>
> Yesterday morning, at about 11 o'clock (CEST, i.e. UCT +0200) the
> files for the security update DSA 816 (XFree86) were installed on the
> public security server. The result was similar to a distributed
> denial of service since literally thousands of users tried to fetch
> the updates. Since then the host saturates its network connection
> entirely.
>
> Independent of this there have been discussions about restructuring
> the security infrastructure in order to provide a more failsafe
> solution, that can also deal with high bandwidth peaks better than a
> single machine.
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With kind regards,
Edward Tjin Liep Shie
Tiscali NL
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