I have been following this thread for some time now. My CPU is also jumping
to 100% several times a day. Web server is on port 80.
I am on a PIII with plenty of ram, win 2k server and there is nothing else
on the box but pc anywhere (yes I have tried disabling it).
AT MOST and I mean MOST I have 5 simultaneous users. This is a real
problem. Has anyone gotten a response from IPSWITCH?
I had no problems until i installed the 6.04 patch. I have applied the web
msg hot fix as well and I have monitoring off. Even if the issue is one of
robots, do we really think that is is a malicious attack that is targeting
IMAIL users? One or two perhaps, but so many people??
I am using then new HK templates, I cannot see how they would cause this?
But hell all angles need to be pursued. I did not notice the problem on
older set, but I wasn't looking for it either!
Maybe more usual robot action is the catalyst? However, I would bet on a
genuine ipswitch bug. The simplest answer is often the correct one.
WHat's up folks?????????
----- Original Message -----
From: "System Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] robots.txt lines in log file
> Len,
>
> My heart skipped a beat when you explained it, it made sense (first
> thing this week) and my web messaging runs on port 80. I didn't have grep
> handy, so I did a quick search through notepad for "robots" - only two
> showed up, right after midnight. My server crashed 3 times today, 7:30
am,
> 8am and 7:30 pm.
> Although, of us having problems, are we all running web messaging on
> port 80? Somewhere to start anyway....
>
> Justin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] robots.txt lines in log file
>
>
> >
> > >"/robots.txt" is a file that you can have on your web server (but
> > >you likely do not) that instructs search engines as to what they can
> > >and can not do on your site. It just means that a search engine (or
> > >possibly something else -- such as someone harvesting E-mail
> > >addresses) found you.
> >
> > But when the HTTP server is just Imail's .cgi which allows no access
> > to a robots.txt file, how to tell these spiders to stop harassing
> > Imail's web server, which is already prone to overloading with
> > legitimate work? That's a good one, huh?
> >
> > hey, could that be why so many different versions of Imail have
> > recently been having an epidemic of iwebmsg overloads?
> >
> > Maybe this is the "fall sweeps" season? vbg
> >
> > Iwebmsging getting spidered to death after months of total quiescence
> > and no software changes??
> >
> > Hey, everybody with iwebmsging pb's:
> >
> > go search your Imail www log files for "robots".
> >
> > If you have grep around:
> >
> > grep <filename robots -ci
> >
> > ... to count how many log lines contain "robots".
> >
> > Repeat for the daily logs where you've had iwebmsg pb's.
> >
> > Ipswitch??
> >
> > Len
> >
> >
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> >
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