Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"?

[Bryan Andersen <bryan () visi com>]

"Vonelm, William J" wrote:
> Hello all,
>   We've just had one of our web servers pummeled into the ground by repeated
> cgi requests from what appears to be a web-crawler from "inktomi.com".  Has
> anybody else experienced this?  Is it some kind of malicious web Denial of
> Service attack or just a poorly constructed web crawler?

It's a bad web crawler.  Complain to them.  http://www.inktomi.com and
follow their contacts page.  I've had my link saturated by them a couple
of times.

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