[thesite] Site down?

[jeff]

djc,

:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: From: Daniel J. Cody
:
: ya, i'm noticing that too.. someone is
: fucking with our site me thinks.
: from the access_log:
:
: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; QXW03018)"
: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; QXW03018)"
: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; QXW03018)"
:
: fucked up URI requests like that are coming
: in at a rate of about 50 a second right now..
: I'm gonna see if I can block the IP
:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

from alittle research it looks like that user-agent string is sent out by a
specific version of site ripping software, although i haven't been able to
find out which one.

kill away.

.jeff

name://jeff.howden
game://web.development
http://www.evolt.org/
mailto:jeff at members.evolt.org