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> What an arrogant hack. It's hard to believe Google engineers would find that a reasonable approach. Reminds me of the recent "Go module mirror fiasco" where
by capableweb 4y ago
> What an arrogant hack. It's hard to believe Google engineers would find that a reasonable approach.
Reminds me of the recent "Go module mirror fiasco" where Google found it fair to clone repositories at a rate of ~2,500 per hour in order to essentially proxy Go modules.
- "Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310674
After the drama become very much public, they finally decided to address the issue in a good way.
- tptacek 4y agoThat doesn't at all seem like what happened (the changes were in the works prior to the drama), but this is a high-drama tangent unrelated to the story here. This isn't some tiny authoritative DNS server being flooded unexpectedly with queries. These are the Internet DNS root services. They have to keep up with this kind of traffic. It's their literal job description.
- adql 4y agoTo be fair, that's less than one a second. But I dislike the whole GOPROXY design, like it breaking private repos by default and having to set some env variables to make this stupid tool download stuff from server I told it to download.
- capableweb 4y ago> To be fair, that's less than one a second. Well, taking the context into consideration, I'd still say it's too much. Context being they were full git clones and the traffic ended up representing "70% of all outgoing network traffic from git.sr.ht".
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