Dealing with bad bots...

See two posts above, cgo.

 

If you are on a unix box, you can deny all traffic from a single IP address with:

route add 155.207.131.48 reject

Code (markup):

(that's actually the last IP address I blocked)
they will think the server is down or something but actually just can't connect to my servers at all

if you are using .htaccess you can send a 403 No Access message, that still uses some bandwidth but a whole lot less than your normal pages by adding

<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from 1.2.3.4
</Location>


Edit: or see 3 posts ago missed that one minstrel

 

okay... made the changes you suggested Minstrel... One last thing, is this a valid .htaccess page then:

ErrorDocument 404 http: // www. abcd. org

<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 68.58.242.24
allow from all
</Limit>

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule resources-(.*)-(.*)\.html$ /more_resources.php?state=$1&city=$2
RewriteRule category-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)\.html$ /y.php?sub=$1&state=$2&cat=$3
RewriteRule city-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)\.html$ /c.php?sub=$1&state=$2&city=$3
RewriteRule directory-(.*)-(.*)\.html$ /y.php?sub=$1&state=$2
RewriteRule sitemap-(.*)\.html$ /sitemap.php?sub=$1

 

I'm too tired to read and vouch for all that RewriteRule stuff but the rest should be fine.

 

You can check if it does what it should do (about the blocking) by just adding your own IP address for a while and try to access your site.

 

yeah... the rewrite is fine. I was just wondering if that was a valid .htaccess. Didn't know if you couldn't combine too many things on it or something... Thanks for your help, really appreciate it!

 

InternetSeer does offer a free site checking service to tell you if your site is down.

Did you mean he could use that to see if his site is accessible, Shannon?

 

No, no. I also use the service to warn me when my sites are down or timing out.

What I meant was how will that help cgo?