High web server load due to "chocolatey command line" clients

[boardhead]

My web site shows intermittent periods of high server load due to various IP's using "chocolatey command line" and downloading multiple copies of my software (ExifTool). Often 70 MB or more is transferred for a package that is only 7 MB in size. Why would chocolatey-command-line clients be downloading a distribution package multiple times? I've been banning these IP's to keep server load under control.

Any ideas what is going on? Any way to mitigate this?

• Phil

[boardhead]

I think I posted this in the wrong place