Ask HN: How to Catch Bad Bots?

Posted by comforteagle on Saturday February 14, 2009 @09:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I do part-time server admin & wonder how others monitor their webserver(s) for badly behaving bots like scrapers, DDoS, etc. What tools & procedures do you use & follow?

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Re:Ask HN: How to Catch Bad Bots? by CalmQuiet on Saturday February 14, 2009 @09:56AM (#481141)

I appreciate your raising the question here, as maybe we can hear from people on front lines. There are, meanwhile, some interesting starting points at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Prevention_and_response

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