Re: DOS From "inktomi.com"?

["Tim O'Connor" <tco () ENTERACT COM>]

Bill,

Inktomi is a provider of content for search engines.  It's probably a
crawler that is having problems navigating your site.  DOS is highly
unlikely.

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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Vonelm, William J wrote:

> Hello all,
>   We've just had one of our web servers pummeled into the ground by repeated
> cgi requests from what appears to be a web-crawler from "inktomi.com".  Has
> anybody else experienced this?  Is it some kind of malicious web Denial of
> Service attack or just a poorly constructed web crawler?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Bill Von Elm:  Computer Analyst- Cyber Security Operations
> e-mail: billve () bnl gov
> Brookhaven National Laboratory - United States Department of Energy
>
> "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
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