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From: legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca>
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Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 20:59:19 -0500
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On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:43:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:12:27 -0500) it happened legg
><legg@nospam.magma.ca> 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