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Getting slammed by a client

Paul Boyd boyd.paul2 at gmail.com

Sat Jul 25 01:54:33 BST 2020

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I had a few of these too. Not nearly as many though. Request counts byminute (UTC):

3 2020-07-24T18:16 2 2020-07-24T18:24 1 2020-07-24T18:27 1 2020-07-24T19:36 29 2020-07-24T19:59 1 2020-07-24T20:00 22 2020-07-24T23:25 3 2020-07-24T23:33 2 2020-07-24T23:34 1 2020-07-24T23:40 24 2020-07-24T23:41

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:46 PM <colecmac at protonmail.com> wrote:

Same here, over 1494 requests since Jul 23 17:22:40. It ended
at Jul 24 19:41:05 for me. That's in EST timezone.
And yes, I can confirm the URL parsing was horribly done, approximately
300 of those requests (20%) resulted in 51 NOT FOUND errors, seemingly
all because of incorrectly constructed relative URLs. If this happens
again I will likely ban the IP.
Thanks for bringing this to my/our attention, I wasn't aware of until now.
Do you have some monitoring system in place? How did you find out?
Cheers,
makeworld
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