Monday, December 01, 2008

AOL Traffic Spam - MOOZILLA

We have a site that literally just got bombed by traffic from AOL with user agent MOOZILLA. The interesting thing is that the IP addresses in each request are not the same. Is someone initiating a bunch of different sessions to try to kill the server? What is this? We've notified AOL...we'll see if that does any good.

Sample traffic:

12/1/2008 10:32:03 PM 207.200.116.138
12/1/2008 10:32:03 PM 207.200.116.138
12/1/2008 10:32:03 PM 207.200.116.69
12/1/2008 10:32:03 PM 207.200.116.138
12/1/2008 10:32:03 PM 207.200.116.136
12/1/2008 10:32:03 PM 207.200.116.69
12/1/2008 10:32:02 PM 207.200.116.136