On Wednesday, August 12, 2020, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Bugzilla now has connection limits per IP. I won't say what the limit is, but if you are crawling bugzilla or using automated tools from a single source IP you may hit the limit and receive 503's for requests over the limit.
> This may be a particular problem for users behind things like carrier grade NAT (where many users are multiplexed through a single egress IP.) However we have seen numerous slowdowns from bot traffic and this is a relatively straightforward change to make on our end. If you believe you are being unfairly limited / blocked, please reach out to infra@gentoo.org.
> Thanks,
> -A
Wouldn't 429 be more appropriate?
The limiter doesn't support this, sorry.
For the curious, who wrote the limiter? Is it an upstream feature provided by the bugzilla maintainers?
It's the apache max IP limiter.
The thread was intended to inform people that bugzilla has limits now; it's not intended to solicit advice on how to build the best possible limiter; I'm aware this one is hokey but I'm happy with it ;)
-A