Parabolic bombarding my dns with requests when dowloading #1111
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Hello and THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING SOFTWARE!! Without it I would no longer consume any content from youtube that now blocks ALL videos (including live streams) after exactly 60s in, most likely because of my hardened uBo... So this is what happened the other day: So the downloads stopped after a while of those 7 videos, and my internet completely stopped working (on my computer, my phone still had access), but came back after I closed parabolic (maybe a false positive, correlation vs causation and all that. Let me explain) I also have a pihole acting as my dns, filtering and whatnot, and within pihole there is a spam protection if more than (IIRC 1000) requests during 5 mins (or if its 10, I was stupid and removed the warning) I checked the pihole request log of what kind of requests made that happen, I thought I had gotten some malware I had to track down on my system, but nope, it is parabolic that makes a TON of requests while downloading, and since I had "so many" (I usually download max 2-4 per day) downloads queued up, well, I think you understand. So my question is, are those consecutive requests necessary? I refrained from making an issue and opted to ask here instead, since it might not be a bug. Last time the dev answered pretty fast. ❤️ Again, thank you for this awesome software!!! |
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Sorry for the long response. But Parabolic does not do any downloading on it own. Everything is just queued up by Parabolic and the actual handling of the download is down by Some things I can recommend tho is trying to set a speed limit in Parabolic or maybe try turning on the aria2c downloader as it might fragment downloads differently. |
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Ah, gotcha. I think they have made some changes to how it works, because the DNS is no longer hammered like it was before. |
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As it says, have to enable it for a download: Which can be done here in |
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Oh, I have to toggle it on the specific download.. That's.... counter intuitive... But ok.. I usually have "download immediately after verification" active, so I actually have not even noticed that "advanced setting" before, I just assumed the limit I set would be followed, or that there would be a toggle in that config window. The bigger issue is using Aria2c makes the application download the same video twice AND throttle the second download to 30KiB like you can see in the logfile i provided on the 1:10 minute long video. |
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Yes, like I said it's to prevent limiting all downloads to 1MB/s by default - because there are majority of people here in the states at least who can download way faster than that and majority of people don't even need to set a limit If you can add a feature request to move the speed limit number setting from the settings dialog to maybe show inline the add download dialog when you turn on the toggle so I don't forget to do that That'll definitely make it more intuitive |
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Yes please and attach the log again there too. Getting a little lost in the discussion 😅 |
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Lol, I was about to make the feature request now since it was in the middle of the night when I made the bug report and was too tired. |
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Sorry for the long response. But Parabolic does not do any downloading on it own. Everything is just queued up by Parabolic and the actual handling of the download is down by
yt-dlp. Therefore, this would be more of a question foryt-dlpdevs.Some things I can recommend tho is trying to set a speed limit in Parabolic or maybe try turning on the aria2c downloader as it might fragment downloads…