Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: legg Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 20:59:19 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <7qujui58fjds1isls4ohpcnp5d7dt20ggk@4ax.com> <6lekuihu1heui4th3ogtnqk9ph8msobmj3@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6b3a8df777a17fe1b6174ba9839775e0"; logging-data="2765503"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19brDJmzKMIZBpCtqYDtcM5" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ViVOTblBZfGYrZlCkl1JcpCFylo= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Bytes: 2488 On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:43:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: >On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:12:27 -0500) it happened legg > wrote in <6lekuihu1heui4th3ogtnqk9ph8msobmj3@4ax.com>: > >>A quick response from the ISP says they're blocking >>the three hosts and 'monitoring the situatio'. >> >>All the downloading was occuring between certain >>hours of the day in sequence - first one host >>between 11 and 12pm. one days rest, then the >>second host at the same timeon the third day, >>then the third host on the fourth day. >> >>Same files 262 times each, 17Gb each. >> >>Not normal web activity, as I know it. >> >>RL > >Many sites have a 'I m not a bot' sort of thing you have to go through to get access. Any idea what's involved - preferably anything that doesn't owe to Google? ISP bumped up limit for this month as courtesy, after blocking the first three hosts, but a fourth host just gobbled that up. 3rd March 1.82.160.27 Chinanet Shaanxi, China telecom #56 Gaoxin St Beijing 100032 5th March 183.197.52.166 China Mobile Communications 6th March 42.184.167.97 Chinanet Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang Telecom,#178 Zhongshan Rd Haerbin 150040 8th March 106.46.35.206 Chinanet Henan, Henan Telecom I'd like to limit traffic data volume by any host to <500M, or <50M in 24hrs. It's all ftp. Have access to Pldesk, but am unfamiliar with capabilities and clued out how to do much of anything save file transfer. RL