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A bots route to localhost

January 24th, 2008 No comments

Recently my server came under what I can only describe as an attack. Clearly some poorly written bot was trying to slurp emails or some such and was sucking up bandwidth by repeatedly loading the same loop of pages.

Normally this sort of thing comes and goes and really doesn’t cause much nuisance, but when they broke the 50,000 page load mark in less than 24 hours I started to get annoyed.

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Server hacked

January 15th, 2008 No comments

Yay! Everything is back and working nicely. The nice thing about having your server hacked is that you end up having to put everything back — which yes is a colossal pain in the ass, but you will just about always put it back in better shape than it was in to begin with.

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