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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There's... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-18 00:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

probably a PERL script to handle that!
Why? by joel.neely · 2010-01-18 00:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

Bing?
Re:Probably just a bug. by Chyeld · 2010-01-18 02:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

*woosh*
That's the sound of Microsoft embracing and extending robots.txt, or you missing the joke the OP made... one of the two.
Hanlon's Razor by PPH · 2010-01-18 07:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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