Hmmm, sounds like a search engine scan, Google or Yahoo Slurpy? Do a reverse lookup on the requesting IP. I would think the goal would be to get this increased? You can stop it (or control it a bit) by placing a robots.txt file in the root directory, then telling the robot which paths not to follow (you can google for how to do this). Warren > -----Original Message----- > From: robert [mailto:roadtested@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:54 AM > To: PHP > Subject: page suck attack > > Hi > Every so often my site is "attacked" in which all URLS on my > site are retrieved in the span of minutes. What is this > called?? I mean what do I google for? I don't know where to begin. > > I'm not sure if I am going to implement such at thing but I > would like to be able to research it to know my options. > > thank you > robert > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php