On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 8:58 AM 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.
>

I haven't had a chance to test this for myself but do the 503 messages give
any indication as to the IP limit being WHY the 503's are being returned or
was this change made/option provided upstream by bugzilla's maintainers?

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
>