On Saturday 09 August 2008, Grant wrote: > > My apache web server has been very slow lately and webalizer charts > > show page accesses at 5x normal with other stats normal. I'm thinking > > scrapers? How do you guys deal with this? Do you identify the IP > > (how?) and ban it (how?)? > > > > - Grant > > I used netstat to identify the IP and I see that I can use it with > "deny from" in httpd.conf. It seems to be over now, but this type of > thing happens periodically. How can I be alerted to this type of > situation when it starts so I can block the IP right away?
You will need to configure quotas probably using something like: http://www.howtoforge.com/mod_cband_apache2_bandwidth_quota_throttling Not sure if it is possible to differentiate between rogue and legit clients, other than by checking your logs to see what was blocked. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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