Hi,
As of yesterday, this forum's being scanned periodically by the bot MSNPTC. This appears to be some (new?) microsoft search engine bot.
The problem here is that this bot executes literally hundreds of simultaneous requests, that actually completely flood the forum!
I've now disallowed the bot in robots.txt hoping it will leave us alone now. If it doesn't I guess I'll have to go for heavier measures like firewalling the entire IP range it uses. This shouldn't be needed though - bots simply shouldn't act like DoS attacks
Does anyone know about this or has experienced the same? Google didn't tell me much about it after a first search.
I'm just curious if this is a known problem or if anyone heard anything about it.
As of yesterday, this forum's being scanned periodically by the bot MSNPTC. This appears to be some (new?) microsoft search engine bot.
The problem here is that this bot executes literally hundreds of simultaneous requests, that actually completely flood the forum!
I've now disallowed the bot in robots.txt hoping it will leave us alone now. If it doesn't I guess I'll have to go for heavier measures like firewalling the entire IP range it uses. This shouldn't be needed though - bots simply shouldn't act like DoS attacks
Does anyone know about this or has experienced the same? Google didn't tell me much about it after a first search.
I'm just curious if this is a known problem or if anyone heard anything about it.