DOS From "inktomi.com"?

["Vonelm, William J" <billve () BNL GOV>]

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?

Thanks!
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Bill Von Elm:  Computer Analyst- Cyber Security Operations
e-mail: billve () bnl gov
Brookhaven National Laboratory - United States Department of Energy

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