DOS attack? hold me, I’m scared

Some jackass is pinging my site with bogus referer information, all from the same IP.

Some jackass is pinging my site with bogus referer information, all from the same couple of IPs.

68.93.137.224 – – [24/Aug/2004:20:49:23 -0700] “GET /wordpress/ HTTP/1.1” 200 73894 “http://www.fjrp.com#comment-1165” “WWW-Mechanize/0.48”

207.243.118.1 – – [24/Aug/2004:11:22:03 -0700] “GET /wordpress/ HTTP/1.1” 200 73894 “http://www.fjrp.com#comment-1144” “WWW-Mechanize/0.72”

<yawn> banned for now. I’ll figure out if I need to do anything further.

<update> I made the refers results page restricted access which is what this is all about somehow: spamming my referers with junk.

And I got an email from the owner of the site that stands to benefit most: he denied anything to do with it or knowledge of it, though I think of the president (an object of worship for my correspondent) and his unaffiliated attack groups. They’re not under his control but they might as well be. . . . .

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