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Astaro eating my bandwidth

Hi

I am sitting in South Africa where bandwidth is expensive, slow and limited.
I get 5GB a month, if that is finished I'm capped and have to buy more bandwidth.

In the last 30 days, Astaro blew 7.1GB of my precious bandwidth...
5.1GB went to ec2-175-41-169-159.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com
2GB went to several mailshell.net servers.

Note: This is not traffic from my internal network, this is my Astaro box alone, wasting my bandwidth.

How do I stop mailshell and what is being done about the amazon thing (I know some other people is also experiencing this)

Thank is advance

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0 mrlew over 13 years ago

I am looking at reimaging the 110 to v8 and was wanting a smart installer USB. I have just been quoted AUD$135.30 inc freight ($33). for a USB stick......
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0 Scott_Klassen over 13 years ago

@mrlew: The reason why is that this is a very specialized USB stick that has a proprietary hardware chip on it, so that it can emulate a CD-ROM. This is needed to be recognized by the Astaro.

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0 trollvottel over 13 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

There are many other USB thumb drives that can do this: U3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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0 Scott_Klassen over 13 years ago

@Mario: So you are saying that now any U3 thumb drive can work with the Smart Installer ISO images?

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0 trollvottel over 13 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

No. The ASI images contains a small ISO flasher utility that should only work with Astaro ASI hardware.

I am very sure there is other 3U hardware out there providing a generic flashing tool to reflash the CD-ROM partition using an ASG ISO. Installation would then be non-automatic (monitor & keyboard needed), though.
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0 mrlew over 13 years ago in reply to BAlfson

Thanks Bob the solution you posted from Alan Toews is exactly what was happening. An exception for "pack.code.google.com" solved the problem. Bandwidth was running daily at 1.5-2.0GB a day and is now down to the more realistic 80-120MB a day.
Basically it appears that the ASGs reporting is a bit lacking in not reporting what is happening. It would be better if a there was a report for failed downloads to identify that an amount of data was downloaded but not completed and sent to the requesting PC.
Thanks again for your help
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0 secs over 13 years ago in reply to mrlew

Hi all.

I found this thread in searching for a solution to my traffic. One of my firewalls is at a place I only visit each couple of weeks and yet it was showing upto 8 gig (I suspect its not completing the download and trying again) a day http traffic from the wan interface and it had me stumped. I couldnt work it out.

So are we saying we need to whitelist the places where the uptodate comes from etc? I temporily have blocked this and it seems to have reduce the traffic dramatically so I am assuming thats the problem.... [:O]

Thanks heaps guys...
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0 BAlfson over 13 years ago

Instead of blocking, Alan suggested creating an Exception to skip anti-virus for the subdomain/URL you discovered.

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0 secs over 13 years ago in reply to BAlfson

Yes I should have explained better. I just blocked it as a test. I then put in a exception. It is now roughly 24 hours and the traffic is HUGELY less.

I should have picked up on this earlier. I kept wondering why the routers lights were always going flat out....

It was only because I am away this 2 weeks and the traffic was still happening I started to look..

Thanks all
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0 BAlfson over 13 years ago

I've created a feature request: Warn if downloads fail after substantially completing.

Please add votes and comments!

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