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Bots, missing nodes and outagesby LanX (Saint) |
on Jan 09, 2025 at 20:21 UTC ( [id://11163648]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Please correct me if I'm wrong. I take it that many outages here are caused by misbehaving bots effectively causing a denial of service attack. Especially those bots ignoring no-follow settings. Now often nodes here are linked not by ID but by name [name] If the exact name is missing as node title, they cause a supersearch for all node titles containing the words (in any order). These searches are very slow and I suppose expensive, since the results aren't cached. Nodelets, which are constantly shown, contain many such links, especially behind ? marks, which until recently were missing real targets.
Now the question:Could it be that such named-links turning into searches contribute to outages in the monastery?
Cheers Rolf
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