Bugzilla – Bug 11848
Firmware update fails if IP address is rate limited
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:31:02 UTC
According to this post by Triode, http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62501 "At present if your IP address is rate limited then fab4 will fail to download new firmware and hence the user will think it is useless... Although we speculate that rate limiting is needed because of rogue SC instances, I think it is dangerous to assume that there won't be cases where there are new fab4 users sharing the same address with something which triggered the rate limiting."
Andy: Is that yours or Brandons?
Yeah I think we need to tone it down.
This is actually the same topic as bug 11766.. The one thing to probably look at on SP is a retry mechanism for the firmware download. I've not tested in detail, but a quick look at the code suggested it won't retry if the initial http request is refused? This is what happens when the rate limiting kicks in.
Currently firmware is hosted on downloads.slimdevices.com (which the canonical hostnames update.slimdevices.com and update.squeezenetwork.com resolve to), and we're moving that to squeezenetwork itself per bug 11776 asap. SN has different ratelimiting, and we can adjust as we observe there to make sure we don't have any issues.
sorry, that link above should have been 11766, typo :)
Closing this as a dupe since it's being covered in 11766 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11766 ***