Over the last few weeks, my offsite virtual server has been hammered with web spider queries from Baidu (they ignore robots.txt), robot attacks looking for phpMyAdmin exploits, etc., driving the load average as high as 50. I spent a few hours looking over the previous week's apache access logs, and adding the most troublesome IP addresses to iptables. Scorched earth - if an ip address is demon-ridden today, it may also be infested in the future. Plenty of other people to serve.
My load average has dropped from 50 to less than one, but being a virtual, it is still slow because the neighbors are also being attacked. I may need to move to a faster hosting service. Sigh. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
