Joe Bassis wrote: > I keep getting tons of repeated search terms in the "Search monitor" > tab. The terms contain exactly the same search text and are continuously > repeated. They seem to be automated spam ? Does gnutella monitor the IPs > of these searches and ban them if they send too many searches within a > specific amount of time ? (I mean, they send 100's of requests in say a > 10 minute time span.) Some of the most infamous search terms are: > Hornytoad, putinhas7yo, credible, qwerty, hussyfaninna, and papier but > there are more.
Hi Joe, Those searches do seem to be automated. LimeWire's handling of repetitive searches has recently been tightened up, so I hope we'll see a reduction in those searches within the next 3-6 months as users upgrade. Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list gtk-gnutella-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel