Bocking IP's rather than Email domains

[Sam Varshavchik]

Gene Heskett writes:

>>And, it is.
> 
> Oh fudge.  That explains it all.  
> 
> Questions:
> Is sourceforge outgrowing its hardware?
> 
> Or is it that badly miss-configured?

Sourceforge is attempting to get the upper hand on their bandwidth by 
throttling file downloads off the project web servers.  Sourceforge wants 
people to distribute the project files through their mirrored FTP plant, for 
which they don't have to provide much bandwidth (compared to their web 
server plant for which they have to provide all of the bandwidth).

That works fine for official, relatively infrequent, releases.  But the FTP 
file release system is just too much rigamarole for relatively more frequent 
source snapshots; where all you want is just to throw some files out there.

Fortunately, I already had my own bittorrent distribution system going; and 
I just turned off the direct file links.

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