False alarm: Abuse of RHN Service?

[nosp]

Thanks for the confirmation.  Based on the time it takes to download
that many packages I have been re-running up2date after its failed
probably once every 4-6 hours, so I am not sure what's causing the
traffic (rhnsd + rhn-applet-gui?) but I will disable everything else and
keep trying to ge the latest & best software from you guys.  Thanks for
the response.

Martin

  On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 01:15, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 05:25, nosp wrote:
> > Didn't see anything like this in the archives, so I was wondering if
> > anyone had gotten this error from up2date (severn, up2date-3.9.19-2):
> > 
> > ---
> > up2date_client.up2dateErrors.AbuseError:
> > Error Message:
> >     Abuse of Service detected for server XXXXX (nnnnnnnnnn)
> 
> Typically this is caused by people running up2date from a cron job.
> The rhnsd daemon will check with the RHN servers by default once every
> two hours. By itself rhnsd generates plenty of traffic at Red Hat's end
> (think millions of systems connecting 12 times a day each). If it's
> running, and you install a cron job running "up2date -ui" every 2 hours
> on top of that, that's twice as many connections as RHN expects from
> your machine. It does not trigger quite that soon, but if you have it
> running many times an hour you will get blocked.
> 
> In your case, you may have crossed the threshold by running up2date many
> times by hand within a relatively short period of time. While unusual,
> it can happen. It will correct itself after a period of time.