Quite the sensationalized title there. It wasn't even a DDoS. All the happened was the smol website received the hug of death from an interested user-agent/content-bot.
Quite the sensationalized title there. It wasn't even a DDoS. All the happened was the smol website received the hug of death from an interested user-agent/content-bot.
Disagree completely. I would absolutely call this an unintentional DoS attack. Web spiders from big corporations should be reasonable to their scraped website, and this one clearly wasn't. Matt...
Disagree completely. I would absolutely call this an unintentional DoS attack. Web spiders from big corporations should be reasonable to their scraped website, and this one clearly wasn't. Matt should not have the responsibility of buying enough web capacity to serve their broken software.
If the other accounts listed in the video are correct, this crawler doesn't even behave robots.txt. That's unacceptable behaviour for a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Quite the sensationalized title there. It wasn't even a DDoS. All the happened was the smol website received the hug of death from an interested user-agent/content-bot.
Disagree completely. I would absolutely call this an unintentional DoS attack. Web spiders from big corporations should be reasonable to their scraped website, and this one clearly wasn't. Matt should not have the responsibility of buying enough web capacity to serve their broken software.
If the other accounts listed in the video are correct, this crawler doesn't even behave
robots.txt. That's unacceptable behaviour for a multi-billion dollar corporation.Much like it was a bad thing when Google's Go team sent a large amount of traffic to SourceHut. (eventually this situation was resolved).