Ah, the joys of running your own webserver.

I had almost 700,000 hits from one IP back on the 20th (to put it in perspective, this site normally gets about 10-15k hits per month). I won’t post the URL it was trying to get (I don’t want to raise their Google PageRank), but Apache was kept pretty busy delivering 403 errors. Check out some of the entertaining UserAgents the bot pretended to be:

66.254.125.98 - - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:06 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.0; Win95)” “-”
66.254.125.98 - - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:08 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Symbian OS/1.1.0)” “-”
66.254.125.98 - - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:09 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; NetPositive/2.2.1; BeOS)” “-”
66.254.125.98 - - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:09 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Voyager; AmigaOS)” “-”
66.254.125.98 - - [20/Mar/2006:08:38:15 +1100] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 403 423 “http://spammer/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; X 10.0; Commodore 64)” “-”

Yep, if a machine (no matter how ancient) ever had a web browser, it’s on this list. Grudging respect for being oldschool, but please… can you mess with somebody else’s server next time?

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