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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:30:04 +0200, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: > > Inktomi (now Yahoo!) sends it's spiders all over the Internet. Lately > > some of our systems are reporting that they open many HTTP connections > > to our web sites, without ever sending any data and immediately > > disconnecting. This is getting to a level where it disturbs us. > I have heard previous stories of inktomi ignoring robots.txt (not seen > this for myself though). And there are threads like this - > Quoting from http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1968-1-15.htm back in 1999 inktomi hammered our nameserver (which never has, and never will run http. ever.) After _weeks_ of complaining to them and to their upstream exodus (hah!) I finally got them to stop. Only to have them start up again a month later. not suprising to see them up to their old antics again. time to nullroute i guess? -Dan
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