Denial of service attack

["kenshin" <kenshin@planetanime.com>]

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Hello everyone, we are currently having a problem with a type of denial of
service attack.  Apparently someone has been hitting our site with a
malicious robot (it doesn't check our robots.txt file) and our ISP has been
shutting down our site b/c we have been using over 90% of the CPU time on
our server.  I've set RobotLimit to 3 but I don't have ipfwadm to lockout
the offender.  Is this something i can run and install as a user (not as
root) and if so where do i get it?  Is there something else i can do?  Has
anyone else run into a similar problem yet?

The other thing i've tried to do is build some static pages (a good idea
anyway i think but i'm not sure that it's working.  I thought the links
would change to my static directory but they all still point to
/cgi-bin/store/

i did it step-by-step according to the faq but i'm not confident that it's
working.

thanks
mike k.
planetanime.com


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