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my site is being attacked by Micorosoft proxy servers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Wed Sep 18 22:28:58 1996
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:24:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Rob Hartill shaped the electrons to say...
>The situation gets worse with time as more and more proxies return to
>the site and get into this infinite loop. I've spent far too many days
>cleaning up the mess and it's not fair on the legitimate users of the
>site that access times are worsened because the proxies are using up
>the resources.
>
>Attached is a patch for Apache (1.1.1 or higher) that I now use to
>block MS-Catapult. It is used by adding (to access.conf)
>
><Location />
> <Limit GET>
> order allow,deny
> allow from all
> deny from user-agents MS-Catapult
> </Limit>
></Location>
The proxy servers have a fixed IP, right? Does your border router do
IP filters? Block the packets completely so the load is not on your network
at all.
-MZ
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