Tim: > > It's important to note that a router has a finite number of connections > > it can manage, and processing power available for its tiny operating > > system. If you have some software that's gone mad making hundreds of > > connections, and not dropping them, the router can stop working.
George N. White III: > I use NoScript, which provides a list of mostly 3rd party sites used by > a site I visit. These lists have been growing over time, it is not unusual > to have dozens of external sites requested by a site I visit. Likewise. It's ridiculous the conglomeration of crap scripts people add to web pages, often because they can't actually create code themselves. It's a security risk for both sides, because any of those scripts could change at any moment. And when you're in a country with slow internet it really drags things down (having a 50 Mb/s local connection means very little when nearly everything goes through much slower overseas links). The other thing I'd noticed back when I had a very dynamic IP (on an ISP with incredibly short lease time, so that you could disconnect and reconnect and get a new IP to try and duck some traffic problems), was that if you acquired the IP from someone who'd been torrenting, or filesharing, that you'd get bombarded with gazillion connection requests for a very long time. That really upset my ADSL modem. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
