Has anyone experienced unintentional traffic overload due to clients' use of wget?

Posted by Daniel Trebbien on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Daniel Trebbien
Published on 2010-05-22T15:57:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 16:02 UTC
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I am wondering if it is wise to indiscriminately block wget on servers that I maintain.

Has anyone experienced unintentional traffic overload due to clients' use of wget?

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