[rhn-users] Red Hat abuse error?

[Clifford Perry]

Steven Lee wrote:
> 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?
>
Morning,
please review the following knowledgebase article on this specific error 
message:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_4352.shtm

Regards,
Cliff.

>
> 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.
>>
>
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