Date   : Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:02:43 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: mdfs.net not available

2009/4/12 Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...>:

> Scanning through it, as well as the usual accesses from
> search.msn.com every two or three minutes and the occasional
> googlebot.com somebody@...
> has been accessing the site four times a second all day. No wonder
> the bandwidth was swamped.

I panicked like mad for a minute there, that almost looked like it
could be my address! Mine turns out to currently be
cpc1-nwrk1-0-0-cust63.nott.cable.ntl.com - with the 'nwrk1' being
Newark. I'll wager that 'mfld7' above is Mansfield. I wonder if you
could report them to Virgin Media?

I suppose it could be someone using a tool to download the whole site
but it could also be someone with a virus. The school I work in once
had its Internet access cut off because a Linux server I'd set up to
run a CMS and a room booking system was flooding the ISP's DNS servers
with SSH requests, which killed the Internet access for most of the
schools in the East Midlands. I have no idea why it did it, the ISP
was so concerned that I ended up formatting and reinstalling the
server from scratch, restoring only the database from a backup. Oops!

-- 
Alex Taylor