Re: SEARCH attack
Well technically the bot would be the one making the request, your
just telling it to make it; no connection would in fact be made
between your server and the one you are redirecting it to.
The issue is simple in legal terms; your telling them what to do in
response to there actions, now do they have the legal right to try to
exploit your server? Not usually, so I personally believe that under
the law your server would only be guilty of trying to defend itself
from a unprovoked attack, but then again I am a computer nerd not a
lawyer so I?m not a expert on the law.
Interesting thought, however, as the idea that a computer can defend
itself leads to all sorts of interesting ideas no doubt full of
blasphemy, libel and slander against more then a few core human
conceptions.. but alas that is a different topic, and not meant for
this thread.
-D
On 8 Jun 2004 at 1:00, Robert Cates wrote:
> You have an interesting point (worry), but one of my rules in life is that
> if I can prove my innocence, I really don't worry much. I would hate to
> have to go through the hassle though. 8-)
>
> I don't know if the RedirectMatch would trace back to my server/IP, or to
> the original requester. Can anybody answer that, with absolute sureness?
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dena Whitebirch" <shore@quasar.net>
> To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: SEARCH attack
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> >
> > I was getting pounded by these too and am wondering though if it worried
> > anyone else that we might be considered to be attacking Microsoft by
> > doing this rewrite? Might there be a similar way to just 'stop' them like
> > sending them to /dev/null or something?
> >
> > >
> http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:RA7huHM9tEoJ:forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D22371+%22SEARCH+/%5Cx90%5Cx02&hl=en
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dena A. Whitebirch
> >
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