Bots don't honor 301 :(

[VirginSnow at vfemail.net]

> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:46:26 -0500
> From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>

> not to.  There are orders of magnitude more bots then web servers.

That's quite a claim.  Do you have evidence for this?

In order for the scenario you're suggesting to take place, vulnerable
hosts would have to be attacked by *multiple* bots.  Furthermore, the
bots would have to be independent implementations of the same exploit,
unless the author used some pseudorandom process to shuffle the bot's
attack queue.  Otherwise, any repeat attacks would be shadowed by a
tarpit exactly the same as the first attack.

Perhaps a better metaphor for your argument (than "masturbation")
would be "pulling one cop off of Rodney King."  But the cops attacking
Rodney King were coordinated.  If you can show me crackbots that
autonomously coordinate their attacks like a hateful gang of racist
cops, then there's a chance you may be right about this.

> > Where can one find/contact these "network abuse reporting systems"?
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=network+abuse+reporting

Queries like that typically return lots of forum posts in which
windows users get a lot of stupid answers to a lot of stupid
questions.  I'd hoped asking that question here would have resulted in
a smarter answer.