bug#79264: IP Block from ftp.gnu.org
Ian Kelling <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:52:31 -0400
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The ftp.gnu.org server was overwhelmed with too many requests last week and it is very likely that we noticed that IP as one which had many requests and fit a pattern that did not make sense to give priority to. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/master/recipes/libtool/all/conandata.yml In the above yaml, there are links to ftp.gnu.org, but they should be to to ftpmirror.gnu.org. The bottom of the page at https://ftp.gnu.org mentions the mirror system and links to http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html for more information. That is the system we rely on for serving files far beyond the FSF's own bandwidth. That will solve your immediate problem, but downloading the same files hundreds of times into the same local network is not great, it is unnecessarily using other people's bandwidth which costs them money. There are 2 good things you can do about this. 1: you could keep a local cache. 2: you could host a gnu ftp mirror yourself, reducing the load on other mirrors. If other people are downloading from your mirror more than you are downloading from other mirrors, then it would be much more reasonable to be downloading the same file many times over. -- Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: B125 F60B 7B28 7FF6 A2B7 DF8F 170A F0E2 9542 95DF https://fsf.org | https://gnu.org