2024-12-03 Community Wiki

OK, what's going on?

Of all the processes running, Community Wiki has a huge spike.

Looking at my logs, I'm adding `TurnitinBot` to my `robots.tx` and I'm adding `DocSpider` to my web server ban rules because the user agent string doesn't contain a URL.

I also found an IP number from 147.124.205.0/24 quickly looking at all sorts of URLs, with changing user agents and no bot identification, so that entire network gets banned at the firewall.

banned at the firewall

And there was an IP number that requested the main page a hundred times. What the hell is wrong with people? They stopped an hour ago, so I'm not taking action.

Let's see what happens next.

For the moment, the peak is over.

Load went up to nearly 40 but came back down again.

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