banned people bothering me

memocrono · **on:** November 13, 2008, 11:08:31 AM

im using version 2.2d build 152

Some download agent have some nasty trick, trying to request when the file is not there / it is already banned. It did request about 20-25 request per second which is killing my pc.

rejetto · **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2008, 03:44:17 PM

did you try the "disconnect with no reply" option, under the bans?

memocrono · **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2008, 12:46:09 PM

I've already try it. it still the same. $:-\$

rejetto · **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2008, 03:03:27 PM

is your PC stuck in such situations?
did you have a look at CPU usage?
what's your CPU speed?

bacter · **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2008, 08:42:46 AM

are you sure that's a banned user and it's not a spider? Do you have a robots.txt file in your root to disallow robots?

rejetto · **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2008, 12:27:58 PM

if it's banned it should not be displayed in the log, unless you have the "banned" option in the log ON

memocrono · **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:31:42 PM

my web only accessible locally, so, no spider n such. i can say CPU usage is at maximum (im using dual core proc. so, about 48%, with one core max). my pc didnt stuck but hfs did. my friend also using it and face same problem. to ban these ppl, we use firewall instead.

rejetto · **Reply #7 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:41:00 PM

your HFS is accessed only locally?
then you should know who is making those requests.
in a LAN, a DoS attack is easier, there are no bandwidth problems.

memocrono · **Reply #8 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:51:56 PM

thats the problem. firewall only way to solve it. so, case close already eh..?

memocrono · **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2008, 02:59:16 PM

BTW, im on college network. its a large network and im not related to admin work at all. so it is very hard to find out who did the request. when on the net, i think it will be no problem (bandwidth limit).

thanks for the reply.

rejetto · **Reply #10 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:07:09 PM

it's hard for me to understand the amount of requests made to your HFS.
if it's a very high load, HFS is not designed to manage it.
you can try to measure the bandwidth used, and talk to the guy who is doing it.
I'm interested to know the amount, to know better what HFS can handle, and cannot.

anyway, if it's not a distributed dos, but comes just from a single IP, the firewall solution is not bad.

memocrono · **Reply #11 on:** November 21, 2008, 11:14:30 PM

Talk about load, my hfs at maximum i ever see serve about 15-25 client which is no problem. I turn on the anti-leech and set the maximum download per IP to 1, maximum connection per ip to 8 and speed limit to 4096KB/s. but when that annoying guy with his stupid download manager download, hfs just stuck there and sometimes even exit on its own. at that time, no other clients are connected.

rejetto · **Reply #12 on:** November 21, 2008, 11:43:27 PM

try the latest beta build.
i'm experimenting a thing that may greatly improve HFS stability with many connections.

AYEHAN · **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2008, 04:13:41 PM

i got same issue with diffrent form

i have set the download to 1 file at a time and and no simultineous connection to that file but user can browse

ppl use downloaders that make 5-10 connections and and some time with IDM 30 connection that stuck HFS and sometime slower down my pc too

i have 2GB of Ram with AMD Phenom 3Ghz Quad Core CpU
any hint?

rejetto · **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2008, 04:35:27 PM

you forgot to tell your hfs version