Hello Ipswitch? Someone must be listenning right now!!! Dan ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "lyrihn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:38:28 -0700 >I have been following this thread for some time now. My CPU is also jumping >to 100% several times a day. Web server is on port 80. > >I am on a PIII with plenty of ram, win 2k server and there is nothing else >on the box but pc anywhere (yes I have tried disabling it). > >AT MOST and I mean MOST I have 5 simultaneous users. This is a real >problem. Has anyone gotten a response from IPSWITCH? > >I had no problems until i installed the 6.04 patch. I have applied the web >msg hot fix as well and I have monitoring off. Even if the issue is one of >robots, do we really think that is is a malicious attack that is targeting >IMAIL users? One or two perhaps, but so many people?? > >I am using then new HK templates, I cannot see how they would cause this? >But hell all angles need to be pursued. I did not notice the problem on >older set, but I wasn't looking for it either! > >Maybe more usual robot action is the catalyst? However, I would bet on a >genuine ipswitch bug. The simplest answer is often the correct one. > >WHat's up folks????????? > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "System Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:48 PM >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] robots.txt lines in log file > > >> Len, >> >> My heart skipped a beat when you explained it, it made sense (first >> thing this week) and my web messaging runs on port 80. I didn't have grep >> handy, so I did a quick search through notepad for "robots" - only two >> showed up, right after midnight. My server crashed 3 times today, 7:30 >am, >> 8am and 7:30 pm. >> Although, of us having problems, are we all running web messaging on >> port 80? Somewhere to start anyway.... >> >> Justin >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] robots.txt lines in log file >> >> >> > >> > >"/robots.txt" is a file that you can have on your web server (but >> > >you likely do not) that instructs search engines as to what they can >> > >and can not do on your site. It just means that a search engine (or >> > >possibly something else -- such as someone harvesting E-mail >> > >addresses) found you. >> > >> > But when the HTTP server is just Imail's .cgi which allows no access >> > to a robots.txt file, how to tell these spiders to stop harassing >> > Imail's web server, which is already prone to overloading with >> > legitimate work? That's a good one, huh? >> > >> > hey, could that be why so many different versions of Imail have >> > recently been having an epidemic of iwebmsg overloads? >> > >> > Maybe this is the "fall sweeps" season? vbg >> > >> > Iwebmsging getting spidered to death after months of total quiescence >> > and no software changes?? >> > >> > Hey, everybody with iwebmsging pb's: >> > >> > go search your Imail www log files for "robots". >> > >> > If you have grep around: >> > >> > grep <filename robots -ci >> > >> > ... to count how many log lines contain "robots". >> > >> > Repeat for the daily logs where you've had iwebmsg pb's. >> > >> > Ipswitch?? >> > >> > Len >> > >> > >> > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 >> > http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways >> > >> > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> > to be removed from this list. >> > >> > An Archive of this list is available at: >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> > >> >> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> to be removed from this list. >> >> An Archive of this list is available at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > -- ------------------------- Dan Nguyen ------------------------- -- Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
