I had something similar happen in November and the robot.txt resolved it for me at that time. -- David Schuster Library Technology Coordinator Plano ISD
---- Paul Poulain <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 29/02/2012 01:00, Agnes Rivers-Moore a écrit : > > Dear friends > > That is problem #1 > > > > Here is problem #2 > > We have also noticed that opac-search.pl and mysqld is causing heavy > > loading. > > Since a few days/week, we (BibLibre) face the same problem, on various > Koha : on our hosting server (20+ libraries), some of our libraries that > have their own server, small or large. > > After investigating a lot, we think it's because something happened with > web crawler : we suddenly have *a lot* of queries coming from googlebot, > bingbot and baidu (the chinese search engine). Plus some dark-net bots > that try to exploit some security holes that are fixed (like reading > /etc/password with a ../../../../../etc/password), but in case this Koha > is not uptodate that could work. > > How did we fix that ? quick fix = drop packet at firewall level. We will > have to investigate for a more long-term fix > (not sure a robot.txt will be enough, but not sure it won't too) > > -- > Paul POULAIN > http://www.biblibre.com > Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc > Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
