Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers

Posted by timothy on Monday January 18, 2010 @12:48AM from the stuck-in-a-rut dept.

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."

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I've seen it before by LordAzuzu · 2010-01-18 00:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

I manage some networks in my home city in Italy, and in the past year I've often seen strange traffic coming from some of their IP addresses. Guess they have been exploited by someone long time ago, and didn't even notice it.