Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 16, 2010 11:42 PM EDT
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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".

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from providing the vector, to taking an active role gus3 10 1,038 Jan 19, 2010 6:49 AM

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