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| | | "Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J5M2wE.MEB@lugnet.com... (...) Hmm, I get Server Error too. Maybe it doesn't like Australians? (By the way, I didn't see the Death Star instructions listed). Kerry (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) I'm thinking maybe they've put in some anti-scanning check, to try to stop me getting data for my instruction download page: (URL) and said check is blocking a large number of Australian IPs. My ISP is Primus, and as my IP changes every day or (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | (...) Ross, It's not working for me or another European so it seems they might have reversed their earlier NA blocked/rest of the world allowed system. Very odd either way. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) Actually, I just did a search on your page for 10143, and it was found. Then I did download the PDF. So there may be something to your theory about TLG blocking your IP range. How much traffic do you generate when you search for instructions? (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | (...) Negligible. I would guess LEGO's own instruction download page probably generates significantly more. ROSCO (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) To put a number on it, I have received 22329 requests to my page since April. That's total requests, including non-search, and failed search requests. I have no way to tell how many requests that generated for lego.com, and besides, blocking (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —David Eaton
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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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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) I poll from Australia, roughly once a month. (...) 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). (...) I do not (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —David Eaton
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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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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) It's more complicated than that, because the PDFs are stored by the 7 digit LEGO number, not the set number. Basically I scan the header of all files in a certain range (about 1 million), and if it is a PDF I check against my database, (...) (18 years ago, 15-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) Ahh. Yeah, I could see that as being potentially red-flagging, if they're getting a million hits in a short period of time. I was definitely thinking smaller scale than that. (...) Heh, the inevitable 1st level of tech support :) It will be (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) Well it takes about 7 days to check them all. And it's only grabbing the header unless it's a new file. (...) Yeah, we'll see. ROSCO (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) Ahh. Yeah, I could see that as being potentially red-flagging, if they're getting a million hits in a short period of time. I was definitely thinking smaller scale than that. (...) Heh, the inevitable 1st level of tech support :) It will be (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | What email address are you using to contact them? I'll moan too bcause it's not working for me and I'm not doing anything that might offend them. Kerry (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) Great idea Kerry! I initially contacted them via the contact form on the website. They have opened a problem ticket, so I'm communicating via that system now, but if any other aussies are experiencing this problem, it can't hurt to let them (...) (18 years ago, 16-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO instructions —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | "Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J5pK1q.o44@lugnet.com... (...) OK, I went, I complained. Buth then suddenly one download worked for me. I did it again, it failed. So, having now spent a number of minutes (...) (18 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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