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me_yy
Asked: 2020-03-31 09:34:11 +0800 CST

Is this real google bot or attack? How do I deal with it?

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So basically my site was unaccessible and I went to logs folder to see what's wrong and noticed a lot of weird requests from various IPs:

155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
209.141.45.189 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
209.141.45.189 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:45 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6189 "-" "Google Bot"
185.220.100.252 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:56 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6344 "-" "Google Bot"
209.141.45.189 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:56 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6344 "-" "Google Bot"
162.247.74.206 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:56 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6344 "-" "Google Bot"
155.4.117.13 - - [30/Mar/2020:20:23:56 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6344 "-" "Google Bot"

I wonder if it's some kind of attack.

Did some whois lookup, for example this ip 185.220.100.252 is from Germany, "tor-exit-1.zbau.f3netze.de"

How can I protect server from such attacks?

They do like thousand of requests per minute and I can't access my own site.

Error.log says: AH00161: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting

(I'm not a webmaster, I host a small site for my needs and have no idea how to react.)

attacks ddos

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is exactly the scenario that fail2ban was invented to cover. I suggest you look into that here: https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

    Likely the "badbots" jail would take care of this immediately, and if not it wouldn't be difficult to code a custom jail/filter set to take care of it.

    For now, seeing how they IP's seem to be limited, I suggest banning those IP's via iptables:

    iptables -I INPUT -s 185.220.100.252 -j DROP

    This is what fail2ban does of course (adds IP's to iptables), but fail2ban does it automatically. It would have protected you from this attack without your even noticing.

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