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git daemon inetd mode: need traffic statistics

Subject: git daemon inetd mode: need traffic statistics

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2 messages between Sep 26, 2022 and Sep 27, 2022.

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Robin H. Johnson· Sep 26, 2022, 04:21 UTC · lore

Has anybody got patchsets that let git-daemon send traffic data (to syslog) at the end of each request, about the peer, and how many bytes in each direction?

Hoping somebody has something useful to share that isn't coming up in my research.

Gentoo's seeing a big uptick in usage on the anonymous git daemons via xinetd (we do offer HTTP/HTTPS as well, but the growth is in http).

I know it's via the git/9418 protocol because the HTTP traffic is well-metered and hasn't grown, and the overall traffic to the hosts also grew. This is confirmed by using Netflow data, which tells me it's the Git port, and some of the IPs, but doesn't let me get which repo directly (And processing the netflow data is also painful).

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brian m. carlson· Sep 27, 2022, 00:26 UTC · re: Robin H. Johnson · lore

Re: git daemon inetd mode: need traffic statistics

On 2022-09-26 at 04:21:46, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

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> Has anybody got patchsets that let git-daemon send traffic data (to
> syslog) at the end of each request, about the peer, and how many bytes
> in each direction?
> 
> Hoping somebody has something useful to share that isn't coming up in my
> research.

I don't, sorry. At work we use a custom proxy which provides this, which I can't share and probably wouldn't be of much use to you even if I could since it's very specific to our setup.

My impression is that typically most hosters are moving away from port 9418 because it isn't encrypted or secured and anonymous HTTPS is just as easy to use. As a consequence, git-daemon isn't typically seeing a lot of development since it is seeing less and less use. Having said that, I'm sure a patch to git-daemon implementing this feature would be welcome, whether from you or from someone else.

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