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.. title: Pre Christmas Update
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.. slug: pre-christmas-update
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.. date: 2016-12-12 23:03:10
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I have taken a bit of a break from Mosquitto for the past few months, partly
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because I needed a break but also to work on another unrelated project. I'm now
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back and working on Mosquitto again, primarily implementing support for the
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upcoming MQTT v5 spec which has added even more features since I mentioned last
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wrote about it. Once that is in a state that is reasonably compliant if
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incomplete, I will be looking for testers.
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There are a few fixes in the repository waiting for release, I anticipate
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releasing 1.4.11 before the end of the year.
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There have been some changes to test.mosquitto.org. On its original host I was
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seeing lots of bandwidth being used by lots of clients, but in particular lots
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and lots of tiny connections being made which not showing up on my bandwidth
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monitoring, but were consuming bandwidth and causing problems at my provider.
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My provider got in touch to say that at times approximately half of the network
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flows for their network were related to test.mosquitto.org, and could would I
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please have a chat with the transit provider to discuss how best to manage this
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service. In the face of that and the risk of exceeding 2TB bandwidth usage per
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month, test.mosquitto.org has been moved to a lower spec host with smaller
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pipes and "automatic DDOS protection". This means I now get half a dozen emails
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per day to say that test.mosquitto.org is under attack. If you find you can't
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connect to test.mosquitto.org, it might be because you have been blocked by
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this DDOS protection - if so, maybe think about how you are using the service.
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The final thought for this post - if you are part of a company that uses
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mosquitto and it adds value to your company, please consider making a
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[donation] to the project that reflects that value. If it is difficult for your
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company to make donations but you would still like to contribute back, please
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get in touch and maybe we can arrange something.
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[donation]: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=J66JWQ3N76L5A
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