Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I looked further in my logs, and
lots of Chinese spiders are hitting my site. I extracted the IPs from the
log files and blocked them with iptables. The database is now stable. I
still have to find the root cause of why spiders cause Plone to expand the
database, but at lease the db is not growing out of control!
Thanks again!
Mark
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Technomage <
technomage.hawke@gmail.com>wrote:
> I would just use an IPTABLES firewall entry and block him before hit hits
> your webserver.
> sending a message to abuse@.... doesn't hurt either (it establishes an
> electronic paper trail).
>
> However, trying to get an admin at a foreign ISP (especially in a place
> where a lot of cybergangs are known to operate) to do anything about it is
> going to be difficult, at best.
>
>
> On 7/26/10 12:10 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> I have a server running a school newspaper site. I keep getting hit from a
>> server in Belgrade with a bad request, which creates an error and causes my
>> database to grow by 1MB/hit. I am trying to track down the bug in the
>> database, so my question is really about getting the guy to stop hitting my
>> server with this request.
>>
>> The IP for the request is 212.95.54.48, and I think it is a spider as I
>> get other requests from this IP for my site map, contacts page, etc. I
>> looked up the IP and I got this from Whois:
>>
>> <snip>
>> What is the best way to handle this? Send an email to
>> abuse@inferno.name <mailto:abuse@inferno.name>, or am I just inviting
>> more abuse? Is there a way for apache to block these addresses before it
>> hits my site (apache is in front of a plone/zope combination)? I have a
>> robots.txt file at the root of my site...
>>
>>
>> Sitemap: http://ahsnews.com/google-sitemaps.xml
>> User-agent: *
>> Disallow: /
>>
>> but it doesn't stop him from hitting me anyway.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions you may have!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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