[Popcon-developers] Bug#459910: Bug#459910: please randomize the submission time (to prevent to DDoS popcon.debian.org)

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:40:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> package: popularity-contest
> severity: important
> x-debbugs-cc: debian-publicity
> 
> As discussed on irc this is because all clients hammer popcon.debian.org on 
> the same day at the same time (in their local timezone at least) once a week, 
> so many submissions get lost.

Is it possible to get more data on this issue, like the relevant apache
logs ? 
I suspect the issue is with the bandwidth rather than with the number of
concurrent connection.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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