LXer: Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers
 

Published at LXer:

The Perl CPAN Testers have been suffering issues accessing their sites, databases and mirrors. According to a posting on the CPAN Testers' blog, the CPAN Testers' server has been being aggressively scanned by "20-30 bots every few seconds" in what they call "a dedicated denial of service attack"; these bots "completely ignore the rules specified in robots.txt".

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Interesting, but it remains to be seen if this was deliberate (probably not, but..) or if MS got some malware in their system :p that corrupted their bots..