MSNBot, the web crawler that powers Bing, went mad and attacked the CPAN Testers server the other night. In a blog post about the DOS attack, the victims explain:
Microsoft in their incompetent wisdom decided to unleash 20-30 bots every few seconds...
Most sensible bots, such as those of Google or Majestic 12, will only let one bot at a time crawl a site, as most sensible companies acknowledge that a DOS attack is not good policy...
If anyone from Microsoft ends up reading this, though likely you'll have to do it in person and not via a bot, I now consider you to be no better than a script kiddie...
Most sensible bots, such as those of Google or Majestic 12, will only let one bot at a time crawl a site, as most sensible companies acknowledge that a DOS attack is not good policy...
If anyone from Microsoft ends up reading this, though likely you'll have to do it in person and not via a bot, I now consider you to be no better than a script kiddie...
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