I have a few shady proxy IP's that have been practically living at my site, so I wrote a .htaccess file to exclude them. This one is still getting through somehow: order allow,deny deny from 38.114.169.172 allow from all should I construct my rules better or is there a reason this isn't working?
Thanks, Wacko King...now I just have to wait and see which one they change to. I've been getting some high wierdness with alien intruders lately, but I can't see what they're up to...is this proxy hijacking and how can I tell? Looks like it's STILL getting through, just got a refer from that damn IP...this is starting to creep me out.
Not sure what your hosting is. If you have your own server, you might look at blocking that IP from your firewall.
Get your own IP address and see if you can ban yourself. Then you can find out if it's even doing anything.
I did one better-I resolved the intruding IP to proxy4work.info and tried to surf by site. Got host error page. So no one should be getting though from that IP. Would I still be reading hits to that error page? What I really want to know is what the hell this bot-it must be a bot, it's living at my site-is supposed to be doing. I've had a bunch of stuff happen lately, including a spam attack via my tell-friend script, but that's been removed. Then the other day my stats report showed 5000 google "hits"-all for terms related to one blog post that shows no such traffic.Besides, I really doubt that the terms-"consciousness," "golden", and "socrates"-get that many searches in a month, never minding the fact that my post isn't in the top ten for any of those. 300 such hits came from google.mu...I had no idea my site was so popular with Mauritanians. Other than hitting my logs a hundred fifty times a day, nothing strange seems to be happening since I put up the .htaccess...but I'm a little worried about all this. I don't want to log in-or not be able to-and find my sites gone. Anybody know a quick and easy way to backup 300 mgs from my server online? I use dial-up and it would take five hours to backup to my desktop.
If it's static stuff, and you have SSH access, zip everything. Then over night, or when you won't be surfing for five hours, download it all to your computer. If it's in mySQL database forum, you just do a mysql dump and download it.