Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year

I came to understand that the design of this feature is questionable. For a start, I never really appreciated the fact that Go secretly calls home to Google to fetch modules through a proxy (you can set GOPROXY=direct to fix this). Even taking the utility at face value, however, the implementation leaves much to be desired. The service is distributed across many nodes which all crawl modules independently of one another, resulting in very redundant git traffic.

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https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourcehut.html

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