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?