I wonder if we shouldn't set a maxclients or add a captcha to the ruleqa.
On 1/7/2018 9:08 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
I believe the cause of this problem was bad bots ignoring the
robots.txt excessively hitting the ruleqa.cgi which takes a second or
two to run eating up memory and CPU.
I have
I believe the cause of this problem was bad bots ignoring the robots.txt
excessively hitting the ruleqa.cgi which takes a second or two to run
eating up memory and CPU.
I have setup this bad bot blocker to prevent this from happening again:
+ promote_active_rules
+ pwd
+ /usr/bin/perl build/mkupdates/listpromotable
/usr/local/spamassassin/automc/svn/trunk
HTTP get: http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/1-days-ago?xml=1
day 1 contains a --net mass-check! offsetting by an extra day
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