Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:06 am Post subject: Strange HEAD requests on my site, is this a DoS attack?
Hi guys,
I'm new here obviously and since I couldn't figure out where its best to start this thread in I selected this section.
Here's my problem, I own a website www.atticafreepress.gr (could be still offline) and my host just informed me that for the 3rd time in 10 days my site has been violated by someone externally and it actually drained the server to 100% load, thus making every website on it inaccessible.
I thought it was just a crawler, and unable to find any information whatsoever about that crawler I decided to just ban that IP. Five days later though, there it is again with a different one.
Can anyone provide any kind of help as to what's causing this, what could this attack be and any means to prevent it from happening again?
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