Possible avenue for DOS attack on the site?

[Eamonn Nugent]

Hello, all

Just a quick note. When I went to grab some packages from the package list
(long story), I noticed the time to load took *forever*. I'm just going to
hazard a guess that it's generating the list from the directory for every
request? If I may make a gentle suggestion, this could cause a DOS if
someone wanted to make a bunch of requests to the "all" package list.
Perhaps this HTML could be served as static and generated by a cronjob
every half hour or so? I don't know how the server is configured, though,
so it could be a load of work. Cloudflare, perhaps?

Also, I hope this email doesn't go to too many people who have it out for
the FreeBSD project...

For what it's worth, here's the page I was on:
http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_1/All/

Thanks,

Eamonn Nugent, CTO
demilleTech
eamonn.nugent at demilletech.net

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