Re: [PHP] page suck attack

Can you check your logs and look at the user agent for what's making the
connections? Could it just be a search engine crawler indexing your pages?
You can control access, usually, via a robots.txt exclusion file.

If it's someone else mirroring your site for some reason, some programs that
do this will obey robots.txt settings.

If it's happening a lot and degrading the performance of your web server,
then it may be a DOS (denial of service) attack.

By the basic description you gave, it doesn't sound like an attack.

-TG

----- Original Message -----
From: robert <roadtested@gmail.com>
To: PHP <php-general@lists.php.net>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:54:20 -0700
Subject: [php] page suck attack

> Hi
> Every so often my site is "attacked" in which all URLS on my site are
> retrieved in the span of minutes. What is this called?? I mean what do
> I google for? I don't know where to begin.
>
> I'm not sure if I am going to implement such at thing but I would like
> to be able to research it to know my options.
>
> thank you
> robert