Re: Can firewall help?

From: Dave Thornburgh (dave-thorn@nodash.adelphia.net)
Date: 03/18/03 

From: "Dave Thornburgh" <dave-thorn@nodash.adelphia.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:41:24 GMT

"godgod" <godgod2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b55vdu$ii55@imsp212.netvigator.com...
> Currently I am facing a problem on my web site.
>
> Sometimes, many connections come from an IP i.e. over 120 new sessions per
> min open from 1 IP address, this action can last for over an hour, 120 *
60
> = 7200 new sessions open from 1 IP for an hour.

Totally ignoring the on-topic part of your post: Are you sure the requesting
machine isn't a webcrawler of some sort? Do you know about robots.txt, and
how to catch spiders that ignore it?

Dave

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