Re: [mv] Alexa.com and hammered sessions

["Karl M. Joch"<k_joch@yahoo.com>]

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They have 2 robots: sarah.alexa.com and green.alexa.com. The parse the 
urls in a wrong way witch causes hammered session locks and sql 
errors. Blocked them too here.

Best regards,

karl

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Am 25.01.00, 04:22:06, schrieb "kyle@invisio.com" <kyle@invisio.com> zum 
Thema Re: [mv] Alexa.com and hammered sessions:


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> My $.02 :

> I just noticed this same robot hitting our server on
> about 10 different domains running under Minivend
> at the same time (within minutes) and I can tell you
> it was putting a pretty good load on the server with
> all of the Hammered session locks so I blocked
> their ip's (there were 2 that I found)
> entirely from the server.

> As best I could tell, their robot was messing up the
> url which caused processes to keep running until
> they timed out.

> Kyle Cook (KC)

> At 08:30 PM 1/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from Chris Daniel
> ><krskrem@speedfactory.net>     ******
> >
> >Hello,
> >I keep seeing the same ip connected to my store. Changing pages
> >occasionally.
> >Always with the same results.
> >
> >Hammered session lock.  I assume that that error is really not a 
large
> >deal because the store still keeps chugging along. After searching 
about
> >that entry into my error log I am of the opinion that what that means 
is
> >that the offending error is related to a process that stopped running
> >after a certain period of time.
> >
> >Like you are connected to a page in the store and you stay connected 
and
> >walk away.
> >
> >Well I followed the ips and it is Alexa.com.   Well I downloaded it.
> >installed it.
> >I remember it , some super geeks idea to document the entire web.
> >Keeping it forever for posterity. Now amazon owns it.
> >
> > Is it a problem to have tons of robot visits that just time out?
> >               I see i can exclude it with robots txt.
> >
> >Kinda interesting info when you surf. like owner of site, visits,
> >ratings , speed etc..votes by visitors with alexa.
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
> >
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