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Re: LEGO instructions
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:34:51 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > I'm thinking maybe they've put in some anti-scanning check, to try to stop me
> > getting data for my instruction download page:
> > http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29 and said check is blocking a large
> > number of Australian IPs. My ISP is Primus, and as my IP changes every day or
> > so, they may have blocked a large chunk of IPs. At least 2 other Aussies so
> > far have said they are experiencing the same problem.
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> So... I don't quite understand-- It says your site is hosted at NorthStar, which
> is in Chicago, yes? Are you scanning Lego's site from that server, or from a
> machine in Australia? Other question I guess would be how often do you poll?
I poll from Australia, roughly once a month.
> Of curiosity, I tried downloading set 7133 via your site and via Lego's site,
> and got two different URL's:
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> From your site:
> http://assets.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/4177480.pdf
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> From Lego:
> http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/7133-1.pdf
Hmmm, interesting. But unfortunately, I get the same server error screen for
that URL. Which either means they are blocking the same IPs on that server too,
or it is a temporary cache and it has been flushed (in which case it is useless
for polling).
> If you're polling in Australia, but hosting in Chicago, the other way around the
> problem is to actually load the PDF file from Lego on the US server, then
> connect to that directly from your PC. It just has the potential to create a lot
> more traffic on your server :)
I do not store the PDFs on Northstar, and I don't want to. There would I'm sure
be legal issues doing that, and with 9.5GB so far, I'd certainly have to pay
more for my hosting at Northstar.
If the polling is the reason they have blocked my IP (and a large range of other
IPs it would seem), I would just like to know. I would be happy to discuss with
them the possibility of updating my database in a "sanctioned" way. But blocking
a large range of IPs because of it seems to be like driving a nail with a 10 ton
truck.
ROSCO
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| (...) Hm. given what you're talking about, it doesn't seem terribly likely that they'd shut down your IP based on that alone-- unless your polls are REALLY hitting them hard. But I'm assuming you're doing something like: for each set in the Lugnet (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) So... I don't quite understand-- It says your site is hosted at NorthStar, which is in Chicago, yes? Are you scanning Lego's site from that server, or from a machine in Australia? Other question I guess would be how often do you poll? Of (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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