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."

So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[drinkypoo]

Anyone know what sites on Microsoft's front-facing sites are most computationally intensive, and yet always dynamically generated? :D

The end is near

[Jorl17]

Run, Microsoft is coming to get you!

Check the blog...

[strredwolf]

Looks like Microsoft's Bing managers are on it. They'll make it worse in no-time flat. :)

BTW, the difference between a DDOS and a Slashdotting? You know why your site went down -- you got linked!

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[jisatsusha]

All that'd serve to do is make them look more popular than ever. Traffic up 300%! Sounds like a good mar

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[Anonymous Coward]

That exactly what i said. Dont you dare leech the score from me jackass!

Re:Check the blog...

[Anonymous Coward]

BTW, the difference between a DDOS and a Slashdotting?

The DDOS bots actually read TFA.

Re:Are you sure?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because they are coming out with P# and don't want the competition?

Re:Probably just a bug.

[Suki I]

Try saving a copy as robots.docx and see if that works ;)

Re:Probably just a bug.

[Opportunist]

Like my grandpa said, it doesn't matter how dumb you are. As long as you find someone even dumber to sell to.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[Anonymous Coward]

As much spam as I get from [e-mail] , I wish that someone would DDOS that damned company. If I knew of a way to get extra spam to [e-mail] I would probably do it so that company could get a taste of its own medicine. [e-mail] sent me unsolicited spam and it drives me nuts. Thanks for nothing, [e-mail] . It makes me want to call the company at [phone] and complain, but I don't have time. I guess I'll email them at [e-mail] instead. maybe.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[kulnor]

Well, with Barbie(TM) on the case, this should be quickly resolved (unless she's too busy with G.I.Joe(TM))

Re:Probably just a bug.

[afidel]

I wonder if it's a CR/CRLF bug =)

Send the lost bots home.

[N1ckR]

I redirect lost bots home, seems a polite thing to do. 301 www.microsoft.com

Re:Probably just a bug.

[PinkyDead]

Microsoft don't have any tools that can effectively read that format.

Re:Happy Dead Nigger Day!

[woody.jesus]

How dare you sir (or madam)!! How dare you! It is clear from the title of your post that you were not so subtly casting aspersions on an organization who I hold dear -- namely the Hirsute Dungeons n' Dragons society. You can frame your remarks in some obscure racial epithets, but to those of us who twirl our mustaches or stroke our beards while rolling dice, your insidious implication is brazenly clear. As the leader of a group of men (and women) With decorative facial hair who play Dungeons n' Dragons every Wednesday night, I cannot help but express the strongest offense to your euphamisticaly delivered hidden acronym. In the future, should you have such thoughts I would urge you to Do Not Say them.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[Spatial]

How horrible are your employees at their jobs when they require the assistance of their victims to fix the problem?

[Every IT worker on Slashdot looks around nervously]

Re:Probably just a bug.

[Pharmboy]

Wow, you must be new....to computers. I particularly liked you comment "A site could have quality links to non ignore sites." as justification for a bot to ignore robots.txt. Can I have your AOL email address so I can write you personally?

Re:IP Spoofing

[Anonymous Coward]

Because you don't know what you're talking about?

Understand, then post.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[dimeglio]

That would be Ken(tm), if I recall correctly, G.I. Joe(tm) was not interested in Barbie(tm).

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[mmontour]

Mission accomplished. I got this on the second link that I clicked.

We are currently unable to serve your request
We apologize, but an error occurred and your request could not be completed.
This error has been logged. If you have additional information that you believe may have caused this error please report the problem here.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[Yakasha]

Clue: Subtle joke, deserves 'funny' moderation ;)

Subtle + Slashdot = FAIL

And what exactly are you hinting at?

bing is written in perl

[bingoUV]

Got it! Bing is written in perl. They do regular expression matching while crawling and forgot to have a \E ... \Q escape sequence for the regex matching. They got so much perl code on CPAN, full of special characters, that somehow the crawler engine went into an infinite loop.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[__aaclcg7560]

I thought Ken(tm) was interested in G.I. Joe(tm) these days. :P

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[gbjbaanb]

IP addresses aren't enough? You're MS--if you can't fix the problem and IP addresses are given, damn, that's just sad. You're freaking massive multi-billion dollar tech companies, and this is the best you can do?

I've seen and used Vista. The answer to your question is "yes".

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[budgenator]

The unobtainable fruit is always thought to be the sweetest.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[Passman]

Nah, G.I. Joe was interested in G.I. Joe these days. But don't bother asking, he won't tell.

Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft?

[spongman]

let's hope they don't store it compressed...