For those that might be interested, the msnbot has now been banned from accessing the CPAN Testers Report site. Having their 20+ bots hit the site every second killed the server last night, and is rapidly trying to kill the server this morning, even after a reboot.
If you experience problems accessing the server (CPAN mirror, websites, database etc), please direct your wrath at Microsoft. Although seeing as they ignore the robots.txt on a regular basis, I may have to implement something a little more sophisticated to denied all access to them. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
