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Subject: ebot@renderosity.com ???

jonfe opened this issue on Mar 14, 2002 ยท 37 posts


Jack D. Kammerer posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 2:15 PM

I got 6 requests as well... I wonder if someone may be using a program, not to get passwords or e-mail, but to bog down the site by requesting that information. Allow me to explain, I was told the same thing was happening briefly on Renderotica, so I looked at the server logs and sure enough, someone from Russia was running a script program that would ping the link for that area 1,000's of times. This didn't mean that he/she would get that information, but actually create a server overload by having the E-Bot doing multipule tasks. Fortunately, Renderotica's E-Bot doesn't work yet, so his attempts didn't yeild much success (except for slowing it down some, but not as much if our E-Bot did work) and we banned his IP Address to keep it from occuring again. I think this is what may've been happening here as well. Something that you might want to check, Clint. Jack