[gentoo-user] Re: Dealing with scrapers - Help!

[Grant]

> My apache web server has been very slow lately and webalizer charts
> show page accesses at 5x normal with other stats normal.  I'm thinking
> scrapers?  How do you guys deal with this?  Do you identify the IP
> (how?) and ban it (how?)?
>
> - Grant

I used netstat to identify the IP and I see that I can use it with
"deny from" in httpd.conf.  It seems to be over now, but this type of
thing happens periodically.  How can I be alerted to this type of
situation when it starts so I can block the IP right away?

- Grant