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Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"?
From: William Woods <bwoods2 () USWEST NET>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:57:48 -0700
Poorly constructed crawler...they have earned a spot in my firewall already -----Original Message----- From: Incidents Mailing List [mailto:INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of Vonelm, William J Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:08 PM To: INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM Subject: DOS From "inktomi.com"? 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! -- Bill Von Elm: Computer Analyst- Cyber Security Operations e-mail: billve () bnl gov Brookhaven National Laboratory - United States Department of Energy "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
Current thread:
- DOS From "inktomi.com"? Vonelm, William J (Aug 22)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Dan Hollis (Aug 22)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Bryan Andersen (Aug 22)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Dan Hollis (Aug 23)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Tim O'Connor (Aug 22)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? William Woods (Aug 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? PARKIN, MICHAEL M (PBI) (Aug 22)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Dan Hollis (Aug 23)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Nexus (Aug 23)
- Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"? Robert G. Ferrell (Aug 23)