A friendly note to someone hitting community mirrors with `?source=zig_version_manager`

bcrist · July 31, 2026, 7:31pm

I noticed something funny in my zig mirror logs today. I’m not sure exactly what project this is coming from, since there are a bunch of projects all sharing variations on “zig version manager,” but just in case the developer is here, I figured I’d post it.

By all means, if you want to keep getting rate limited, go ahead and continue downloading zig ~1MB at a time, but just know that you’re trying to walk up the down escalator.

Jul 31 17:59:22 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2134: Client requested range: bytes=0-0
Jul 31 17:59:22 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(http): S1 C2134: [206] GET /zig-x86_64-windows-0.16.0.zip?source=zig_version_manager
Jul 31 17:59:23 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2134: Client requested range: bytes=0-1023999
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Jul 31 17:59:23 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2135: Client requested range: bytes=3072000-4095999
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Jul 31 17:59:23 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2136: Client requested range: bytes=2048000-3071999
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Jul 31 17:59:24 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2138: Client requested range: bytes=11264000-12287999
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Jul 31 17:59:25 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2135: Client requested range: bytes=31744000-32767999
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Jul 31 17:59:25 zigmirror zigmirror[763700]: info(zigmirror): S1 C2135: Client requested range: bytes=38912000-39935999
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kj4tmp · July 31, 2026, 10:26pm

Out of curiosity, got anything from “jeffs_bash_script” :)?

bcrist · July 31, 2026, 10:33pm

Nope, at least not in the last week or so

vulpesx · August 1, 2026, 12:52am

I’m guessing its being used on their CI and its not caching the downloads and ofc, for some silly reason, is hardcoded to your mirror…

Word of advice to whoever made this, caching downloads and cycling through mirrors should have been the first things implemented…

gonzo · August 1, 2026, 9:53am

Assuming best intentions on the person doing those downloads, I would implement a rate limiting strategy on the server side that quickly (exponentially) backs off to sending some ridiculously small fragment size, say, 10 bytes (or even 1 byte), as a means of drawing their attention. If that doesn’t make them react, well… that’s on them.

jdevries3133 · August 1, 2026, 1:30pm

That could put pressure on load balancer connection limits as it’s basically a self-slow-loris attack.

bcrist · August 1, 2026, 5:47pm

To be clear, they may be doing caching and mirror rotation correctly, once they’ve downloaded the full artifact. What’s happening is that they’re using HTTP Range headers to only request 1MB chunks of the file at a time. This is a common strategy for streaming video/audio players, but it’s a bit silly for normal downloads. In this case, the intended use case for range requests is that if the connection dies, the client can restart the download, skipping everything they already received.

But it’s not really a problem on my end. They end up eventually getting 429’d because my rate limiting is a simple “request quota bucket” system, not based on total bytes transferred. The only minor problem on my end is that my cache eviction heuristic doesn’t currently distinguish between requests for the full artifact and requests for just a portion, so they’re artificially inflating the perceived popularity of the artifacts they request. I’ll probably change that to only count requests for the full artifact or requests starting with the first byte of the file.