[77455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: broke Inktomi floods?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Jan 20 16:52:46 2005
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:52:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Gadi Evron <gadi@tehila.gov.il>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a05012004436dcb40c8@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:30:04 +0200, Gadi Evron <gadi@tehila.gov.il> wrote:
> > Inktomi (now Yahoo!) sends it's spiders all over the Internet. Lately
> > some of our systems are reporting that they open many HTTP connections
> > to our web sites, without ever sending any data and immediately
> > disconnecting. This is getting to a level where it disturbs us.
> I have heard previous stories of inktomi ignoring robots.txt (not seen
> this for myself though). And there are threads like this -
> Quoting from http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1968-1-15.htm
back in 1999 inktomi hammered our nameserver (which never has, and never
will run http. ever.) After _weeks_ of complaining to them and to their
upstream exodus (hah!) I finally got them to stop. Only to have them
start up again a month later.
not suprising to see them up to their old antics again.
time to nullroute i guess?
-Dan
