[rhn-users] Red Hat abuse error?

[Steven Lee]

Hi,

One of the administrators on campus sent me the following problem  
report yesterday.  Apparently he is encountering this problem  
intermittently while patching his systems.  I've encountering some  
"communication errors" in the last few days while patching my  
systems, but not this "abuse of system" error.  Has anyone else seen  
this?


Steven



Begin forwarded message:

> I tried to update one of my machines.  After downloading a pile of  
> stuff I got this error.  Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> Error Message:
>     Abuse of Service detected for server jose.math.cornell.edu  
> (1006249086)
> Error Class Code: 49
> Error Class Info:
>      You are getting this error because RHN has detected an abuse of
>      service from this system and account. This error is triggered  
> when
>      your system makes too many connections to Red Hat Network. This
>      error can not be triggered under a normal use of the Red Hat  
> Network
>      service as configured by default on Red Hat Linux.
>
>      The Red Hat Network services for this system will remain disabled
>      until you will reduce the RHN network traffic from your system to
>      acceptable limits.
>
>      Please log into RHN and visit https://rhn.redhat.com/help/ 
> contact.pxt
>      to contact technical support if you think you have received this
>      message in error.
>