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Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers
at_slashdot writes "The Perl CPAN Testers have been suffering issues accessing their sites, databases and mirrors. According to a posting on the CPAN Testers' blog, the CPAN Testers' server has been being aggressively scanned by '20-30 bots every few seconds' in what they call 'a dedicated denial of service attack'; these bots 'completely ignore the rules specified in robots.txt.'"
From the Heise story linked above: "The bots were identified by their IP addresses, including 65.55.207.x, 65.55.107.x and 65.55.106.x, as coming from Microsoft."
Anyone know what sites on Microsoft's front-facing sites are most computationally intensive, and yet always dynamically generated? :D
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Run, Microsoft is coming to get you!
Have you heard about SoylentNews?
Looks like Microsoft's Bing managers are on it. They'll make it worse in no-time flat. :)
BTW, the difference between a DDOS and a Slashdotting? You know why your site went down -- you got linked!
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Because they are coming out with P# and don't want the competition?
Try saving a copy as robots.docx and see if that works ;)
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I wonder if it's a CR/CRLF bug =)
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I redirect lost bots home, seems a polite thing to do. 301 www.microsoft.com
Microsoft don't have any tools that can effectively read that format.
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How dare you sir (or madam)!! How dare you! It is clear from the title of your post that you were not so subtly casting aspersions on an organization who I hold dear -- namely the Hirsute Dungeons n' Dragons society. You can frame your remarks in some obscure racial epithets, but to those of us who twirl our mustaches or stroke our beards while rolling dice, your insidious implication is brazenly clear. As the leader of a group of men (and women) With decorative facial hair who play Dungeons n' Dragons every Wednesday night, I cannot help but express the strongest offense to your euphamisticaly delivered hidden acronym. In the future, should you have such thoughts I would urge you to Do Not Say them.
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Wow, you must be new....to computers. I particularly liked you comment "A site could have quality links to non ignore sites." as justification for a bot to ignore robots.txt. Can I have your AOL email address so I can write you personally?
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Because you don't know what you're talking about?
Understand, then post.
Got it! Bing is written in perl. They do regular expression matching while crawling and forgot to have a \E ... \Q escape sequence for the regex matching. They got so much perl code on CPAN, full of special characters, that somehow the crawler engine went into an infinite loop.
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