On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 19:30 +0100, Agon S. Buchholz wrote:
66.249.65.201 and the other stressing acces are coming from a Google subnet, so I don't like the idea very much to block these hosts with ipchains.
Log into Google Webmaster Tools, add your site to their system, and adjust the crawl rate to be slower using the tools provided there.