-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 not sure if spiders falls under spam or ddos bracket when they repeatedly start hammering one's network. you could possible report to spamcop (*grin*) to get a quicker response. spamcom hasn't been accurate in some instances :-) do you remember this incident, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ regards, /vicky Dan Hollis wrote: | On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: | |>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:30:04 +0200, Gadi Evron <gadi@tehila.gov.il> wrote: |> |>>Inktomi (now Yahoo!) sends it's spiders all over the Internet. Lately |>>some of our systems are reporting that they open many HTTP connections |>>to our web sites, without ever sending any data and immediately |>>disconnecting. This is getting to a level where it disturbs us. |> |>I have heard previous stories of inktomi ignoring robots.txt (not seen |>this for myself though). And there are threads like this - |>Quoting from http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1968-1-15.htm | | | back in 1999 inktomi hammered our nameserver (which never has, and never | will run http. ever.) After _weeks_ of complaining to them and to their | upstream exodus (hah!) I finally got them to stop. Only to have them | start up again a month later. | | not suprising to see them up to their old antics again. | | time to nullroute i guess? | | -Dan | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB8DFOpbZvCIJx1bcRAu2FAJ4+a2SHF7XxWgaHKFZzi7hf46tJFwCfcU12 fbIMwtwkPhI33onPawlBKYE= =P+y0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----