[OSM-talk] Connection Limit

[Tom Hughes]

I have applied a connection limit to the web server on www.openstreetmap.org
that limits the number of simultaneous connections from any one IP address
to twenty. After that requests will get a "403 Forbidden" response.

This was primarily done because a pair of IP addresses were bombarding
the server with map requests to the API and the server seemed to have
more or less ground to a halt as the requests were coming in faster than
the server could handle them - there were in fact over 220 connections
from those two addresses when I applied the limit.

The limit might need some tweaking, so do shout if you see any problems
as a result of it, but for now the server seems to be a lot happier than
it has been for the last few hours.

Tom

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Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
http://www.compton.nu/