Combating Digg/Slashdot effect?

[BlackRaven]

Sad to say that my site crashed (a phpbb forum) because of being listed in Digg (Just glad it wasnt slashdot). Anyways wondering if someone out there could make a .htaccess file so that if someone is being directed from the digg or slashdot website they are directed to the example.com:8090 page

For example say suppost the url http://example.com/viewtopic.php?t=34]gets listed on slashdot or digg, i want to do a rewrite of the url so that it points here http://example.net:8090/viewtopic.php?t=34]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:57 am (utc) on Oct. 4, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified. [/edit]

[BlackRaven]

got this far,

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} slashdot\.org [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} digg\.com
RewriteRule ^/(.example.net:8090*)$ [%example.com$1...] [R]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:58 am (utc) on Oct. 4, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified. [/edit]

[magicsloth]

I would think that Slashdot and Dig users are probably more likely than the average user to not send referral information. This will still block some of them though but I don't know that it will save you from slashdotting.