DDOS attack?
I must have ruffled a few feathers.
I noticed an insane spike in my bandwidth April 18, when I reviewed my traffic today.
Starting 18/Apr/2006:11:48:52 and stopping 18/Apr/2006:12:45:37, I had many hosts loading only the index page, all with the same user agent. In that time I hardly saw any legitimate looking requests in between all the phony ones.
There doesn’t seem to be a point to the barrage. The referrer is empty, and they only load the index page.
I started listing the participants, but gave up. There are just too many.
Update: I’m not the only one of the anti-spammers to be on the receiving end of DDOS attacks. One of my compatriotes is currently serving up 403’s if you click on a Google link to his site (yup, that’s exactly what I did…). I’d post the link, but he hasn’t gone public on this yet.