Re: [gopher] Throttling gopher daemon is desirable
> I figure there hasn't been much call for throttling functionality for
> gopher daemons. Today it would have been much appreciated. Could I
> convince someone to add a throttle to pygopherd? I lack the savvy with
> Python to do it myself. And now, here's why I bring this up.
>
> Over a three day period spanning June 16, 17, and 18 of 2013 (UTC),
> someone attempted and probably suceeded in downloading the entirety of the
> Interactive Fiction Archive from gopher.feedle.net. This caused a massive
> spike in outbound network traffic that has probably cost some money. I'm
> not sure yet how much. We have the logs and are looking into tracking
> down who did it. I'll probably post snippets of the logs later.
I'm actually looking into this for Bucktooth, since a lot of the bot
traffic via proxy is causing this sort of trouble. You might have been
victim of the same thing.
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