We had a bozo creating a robot that apparently hits our pollbooth and floods it with entries I assume by deleting the cookie. My hosting service (opensourcehost.com) had to disable pollbooth.php on my site.
pasted below from my host.
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Hey,
Over the last few days the server you are on has had some issues with Apache spiralling out of control and crashing the server. After watching the server and trying to catch it in the act we finally did. It is your pollbooth.php that is crashing the server. Simply by visiting the comments the server would go crazy and then the load would go sky high, eventually coming back down.
I disabled pollbooth.php by chmod 000 (changed the permissions so it
couldn't execute). Let me know what I can do for you. Thanks.
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After further reading I see you had a problem with some guy injecting votes into the poll. When I caught the server going crazy the exact thing the log said was "www.kenoshaonline.net POST /pollbooth.php HTTP/1.1" about 100+ times in a row. The POST's were make Apache go crazy. Let me know what I can do to help you. Thanks.
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Has anyone run into this?
John Nordquist,
Applications Specialist, medical Technologies