Thank You Yahoo/Inktomi!
This morning’s downtime was brought to you by the overzealous bots of Yahoo/Inktomi. This isn’t the first time that Yahoo/Inktomi search engine bots have caused server downtime. In fact, nearly all of the recent downtime has been caused by the bots of Yahoo/Inktomi pummelling the server incessantly. Yahoo/Inktomi needs to learn that sending 200 bots at once to attack a webserver is very bad form. They won’t ever get to be Google-like by annoying server administrators. Microsoft needs to learn that same lesson it seems.
The Inktomi 74.6.0.0/16 Class B has been blocked. Just because it’s a corporation and not some script-kiddie doesn’t make their abuse right.
