Last night, a single user (or, at least, a single IP address) in China that self-identified as running windows98 and Mozilla 4.0 attempted to download sqlite-3.3.12.tar.gz 24980 times and sqlite-source-3_3_12.zip 25044 times over about a 5 hour period, sucking up significant bandwidth in the process.
I've seen this type of thing before and have on occasion banned specific IP addresses from the website using iptables -A INPUT -s <ipaddress> -j DROP But lately, there have been so many problems coming from win98 and moz4 that I'm thinking of banning all traffic that self-identifies as such in the User-Agent string of the HTTP header. Thoughts anyone? Are there less drastic measures that might be taken to prevent this kind of abuse? -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
