I'm sure it's been said before but why not just configure iptables to drop the packets from 139.175.250.23?
Then it CAN'T connect At 07:34 PM 11/24/01 +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote: >On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > > Despite what I put in any robots.txt, this one disregards all rules and > > > just jams up my system, downloading every damn' thing in sight. > > > Mails to the owners are totally disregarded. > > > > Have you actually seen: > > http://www.openfind.com.tw/robot.html > > > > It talks about the robot and how to get it to stop accessing your site. > >Hereward -- did you read my first paragraph? >(But to answer your question -- yes -- _of course_ I've actually seen >the robot.html page.) >The site tacitly admits that people are having difficulty getting rid of >the 'bots -- and DESPITE applying every fix so far suggested to me, this >is from tonight's access.log: > >robot12.openfind.com - - [24/Nov/2001:18:38:27 +0000] "GET >/familycentury/twins/ HTTP/1.0" 200 3054 "-" "Openfind data gatherer, >Openbot/3.0+([EMAIL PROTECTED];+http://www.openfind.com.tw/robot.html)" > >OK? >(Mind you, I may slowly be working my way through killing off 16 >different 'bots, but I'm still leery.) I seem to have reduced it to 5 >hits per attack -- instead of 45 minutes continuous lockup, as >experienced yesterday -- but it seems to be ignoring all attempts to >keep it out of my system. > > From off-list correspondence I know I'm not the only victim, either. >Degree of annoyance varies from site to site (possibly dependent on >overall site setup). > >Martin >-- > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
