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Originally Posted by Graham
Ok, I've just been checking my site logs and something's seriously screwey because yesterday, instead of the normal 1,000 to 1,500 or so visits, I had over twenty five *thousand* hits on the site!!
According to the logs, most seemed to come from 80.161.96.79 and Sam Spade gives that as 0x50a1604f.kd4nxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk which means nothing to me.
I don't know what happened, things have now dropped back down normal, so I don't know if someone was trying to DOS attack my site or what, but it's a little disconcerting!
Anyone got any ideas?
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Is it the same page getting hit, or different ones? If they are different pages, is every page different or does a small set get repeatly hit?
It could be someone trying to cache your site, either for his own gratification reasons, or just to be a theiving toerag and mirror your shop for himself. The latter is fairly common.
Edit: If it is either of those 2 senarios, I don't think there is a lot you can do. You can't ban programs like wget, BlackWidow and GetRight - they miimck regular browsers. Some control panels can limit bandwidth to every host, might be a solution. But as you said, he has got what he wanted and stopped.