Spammers are playing havoc with my site and probably others today:
[/usr/home/paul]# wc -l /opt/weblogs/httpd-access.log
29019 /opt/weblogs/httpd-access.log
(root)-(01:52 PM / Thu Dec 09)
[/usr/home/paul]# grep -c ” 404 ” /opt/weblogs/httpd-access.log
26017
Everyone of these spam requests comes in as “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)” and I have no reason to doubt it: anyone know of any magic packet that push these boxes over? And why don’t their network providers realize this is going on? The rates of fire are far too high to be legitimate web requests. Time to look at mod_throttle.