Betr.: Re: [ic] Too many new ID assignments for this address.

[J van Dijk 'BV Kunststoffenindustrie Attema']

> >>> jojo at leidinger.net 17-8-04 11:33:51 >>>
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:16, J van Dijk 'BV Kunststoffenindustrie
> Attema' wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> > 
> > With a fine working website, we suddenly got an error with IE6
when
> > looking at the website from our office:
> > 
> > "no permission (403)"
> > 
> > Mozilla was a bit more verbose:
> > 
> > "Too many new ID assignments for this address. Please wait at least
24
> > hours
> > before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access. 
> > Terminating."
> > 
> > This started at Friday so nobody was at the office during the
weekend,
> > but this problem still persists. 
> 
> Any running browser during the weekend? What is your logfile of your
> webserver saying?
> 
No running browser, 100% sure.
Logfile:

213.144.229.53 - - [13/August/2004:17:15:57 +0200] attema
/cgi-bin/attema Too many new ID assignments for this IP address. Please
wait at least 24 hours
 before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access.
Terminating.
 
213.144.229.53 - - [13/August/2004:17:15:57 +0200] attema
/cgi-bin/attema Too many new ID assignments for this IP address. Please
wait at least 24 hours
 before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access.
Terminating.
 
213.144.229.53 - - [16/August/2004:10:56:35 +0200] attema
/cgi-bin/attema/nf_installatie Too many new ID assignments for this IP
address. Please wait at least 24 hours
 before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access.
Terminating.
 
213.144.229.53 - - [16/August/2004:10:56:40 +0200] attema
/cgi-bin/attema/nf_installatie Too many new ID assignments for this IP
address. Please wait at least 24 hours
 before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access.
Terminating.

Strange, there's > 24 hours between 13 and 15 August, isn't there an
automatic reset ?

> > The problem is that the our (office)  ip address is blocked. 
> > ( at least the rest of the world could see our website...).
> > 
> > I've searched the archives but didn't find an answer.
> 
> Search for RobotLimit!
> 
> > Are too may refreshes on a page causing this error ?
> 
> See RobotLimit!
> 
RobotLimit  100
I've changed it to 500 and it worked right away.
Is the value of 100 adviseable ?

> > Why is this mechanism used ?
> 
> A protection for bad robots.
> 
> > How can we avoid this problem ?
> 
> Check your IC codes.
> 
> > In an office like ours it's impossible to let everybody wait for
24
> > hours (only during weekends)
> 
> Try out your session id and remove the session file. Check your codes
in
> your catalog.
> 
> Hope, that helps a little bit.
> 
> Joachim

Thanks a lot, the real cause isn't clear at this moment, but we'll get
there !

Jan van Dijk

Met vriendelijke groet,

Jan van Dijk
j.vandijk at attema.nl
B.V. Kunststoffenindustrie Attema
tel : 0183-650650 tst 674
fax: 0183-650751
www.attema.nl