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Too many accesses to pci-ids.ucw.cz

Open gollux opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Hello!

This is the maintainer of the PCI ID database (pci-ids.ucw.cz) speaking.

I am currently getting more than 200000 requests per day from your module, but only from about 300 unique IP addresses per day. That translates to 60 GB of data daily! This looks like you have seriously broken (or non-existent) caching.

Could you please fix it quickly and notify your users? Otherwise I will have to implement bandwidth limits.

Even better, please consider sending individual queries to the PCI ID database using DNS. The protocol has no good documentation, but you can copy the implementations from pciutils/lib/names-net.c.

gollux avatar Mar 03 '22 16:03 gollux