Re: "octave.sf.net bandwidth exceeded"

[Carnë Draug]

On 8 Jan 2014 22:43, "c." <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 8 Jan 2014, at 23:08, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > On 8 January 2014 21:08, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Hmm... just got this when I tried to surf to the OF developers page:
> >>
> >>
> >>> SourceForge.net Logo
> >>>
> >>> This project has been temporarily blocked for exceeding its bandwidth
> >>> threshold
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Projects and users who host on SourceForge.net are given web space to
> >>> augment their communities and interact with their users. In cases where a
> >>> project or user's web space exceeds pre-determined thresholds, this
> >>> message will be displayed. This block is typically short lived (10-15
> >>> minutes), unless the cause of the bandwidth usage is not mitigated. We
> >>> recommend that the administrator of the site take action to reduce
> >>> bandwidth usage. If you feel you are receiving this message erroneously,
> >>> please contact SourceForge.net Support for assistance. Typically this
> >>> message is displayed when files that belong in the FRS are uploaded into
> >>> project web, or someone tried to host some pr0n or w4r3z. SourceForge.net
> >>> Support is willing and able to assist in resolving the cause of this
> >>> error.
> >>
> >> In a way this is good news (in that OF gets quite a bit of attention)...
> >>
> >> But maybe also something to watch out for as soon as we put binary
> >> installers for 3.8.0 there.
> >
> > The packages and binaries are independent of the web pages. This was
> > caused because someone was crawling the doxygen documentation for the
> > new release which is 2.3GB in size. If however is doing it is reading
> > this, please stop. Just download the Octave source, move into the doc
> > directory and run "make doxyhtml".
> >
> > The site is back online. Don't forget to reload the webpage, since the
> > browser can cache the warning.
> >
> > Carnë
>
> Carnë,
> Maybe we should also distribute the doxygen docs in html and pdf to be read offline?

I doubt that whoever decided to do this looked much for such solution or would have found it easier to build it themselves. Of so, having a PDF somewhere wouldn't have prevented it. Plus, the interface is not really comparable. The HTML are 2.3GB which would be problematic to distribute.

If this happens again, the IP address can be blacklisted which hopefully will lead to find this thread with right way to get it.

Carnë