Apache

Beg your pardon, Guruji

On a server where we have few slightly useful websites, some "Guruji bot" has been hitting badly for almost a week now. On delving into it a bit, we found that all the other [:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack|DoS] like flood also came from IPs allocated to Guruji.com.

Apparently, Guruji is a new "Indian Search Engine" and it is continuing the glorious tradition by labeling itself "beta". The similarity to the you-know-which seems to end there.

There's no surprise if the bots they are running are terribly "beta" too, because they are messing up royally with servers.

If Guruji is troubling your server too, bid iptables to the rescue, ban their IPs from the server until their bots learn manners.

On another note, observe how Kannada is used on [:http://www.guruji.com/ka/|Guruji.com's Kannada interface]:

Guruji = ಗುರುಜಿ (!)

Re-write with Apache2 - one trivial stuff that Apache 1.x users might usually tend to overlook

I've had to remind myself this every time I upgrade the distributions on my Workstations and notebook.

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