Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers

at_slashdot writes "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.'" From the Heise story linked above: "The bots were identified by their IP addresses, including 65.55.207.x, 65.55.107.x and 65.55.106.x, as coming from Microsoft."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/0749208/Microsoft-Bots-Effectively-DDoSing-Perl-CPAN-Testers?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/18/0749208"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/18/0749208/Microsoft-Bots-Effectively-DDoSing-Perl-CPAN-Testers?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/31nj4il3CDWqHIRBpGIqaEeTM8I/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/31nj4il3CDWqHIRBpGIqaEeTM8I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/31nj4il3CDWqHIRBpGIqaEeTM8I/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/31nj4il3CDWqHIRBpGIqaEeTM8I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/75k_Vff9GJg" height="1" width="1"/

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