Hi, On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:20:50AM -0600, Chris Parker wrote: > Yes, the CGI has been temporarily disabled.
good to know why it doesn't work. > It was being recursively walked by a spammerbot from .CN. A robots.txt > was ignored, and >20 simultaneous connections trying to recursively walk > the CVSWeb CGI impacted the server to the point that I felt it best to > disable the CVSWeb CGI for the time being. Hmmm... so the IP numbers of that bot didn't offer themselves for an access list (.htaccess or on the packet filtering level)? Hrmpf. I've also seen a nice idea of how to trap such bots on a web page using web bugs, but can't readily remember where. > It will be re-enabled shortly, once I've added some type of rate-limiting > to prevent a runaway web crawler from killing the server. That would be a very broadband measure. Best, --Toni++ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
