Bandwidth issue ... Please help Yandex is Eating Bandwith

Yandex enterprise network is eating the bandwidth. This IP 77.88.43.26 took 13GB data from one of my client site that is wallpaper site. Is it search engine or some thing else. Even Google bot is not taking too much bandwidth What Yandex is all about ?

77.88.43.26 106126 106126 13.72 GB 25 Jan 2010 - 10:17

http://www.robtex.com/ip/77.88.43.26.html
http://whois.domaintools.com/77.88.43.26

 

you have to check the user agent for that ip address on your log file.

 

Yandex is a Russian search engine so it is possible that the site was crawled by their bots and they ate so much of the bandwidth.

 

Well, if you do not get any traffic to speak of from Yandex, there's no need to give away your bandwidth. They could have been crawling your website but with 13GB of data I don't find that very likely. Most probably they or someone using their system, is hotlinking your files.

This way they can display your images, in this case wall papers, on their own site and making money off advertising, while you supply the storage and the bandwidth. Lots of scammy Chinese, Russain and Indian developers are using this system to steal from us that have.

You should insert a few rows in your .htaccess file to stop this behaviour and protect your images. If they want them, they have to come to your site. Contact me for more info.

 

For more info on creating an .htaccess file, please see more here: http://www.htaccesstools.com/

 

If you want to block Yandex search bot, use this CIDR:
77.88.0.0/18,87.250.224.0/19,
93.158.128.0/18,
93.158.144.0/21,
93.158.144.0/23
95.108.128.0/17,
95.108.152.0/22,
95.108.158.128/25,
178.154.128.0/17,
178.154.160.0/22,
213.180.192.0/19,
213.180.192.0/24