Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-28 Thread Andy Leach
link to webmasterworld in this thread is a good example. Their site comes up as high ranking hits for quite a few searches relating to this sort of thing, but you need to log in to read the forums. Against google's terms and might get them kicked off the index. (Does google cache wemasterw

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
> C.H. - cable is always static. Besides google spiders by website, not > IP, so shouldn't matter if it was dynamic. All the .pdf are static > content, so playing with expiry times doesn't seem to be a good idea to > me? I haven't set any expiry anywhere. My experience with using configured expiry

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:22:00 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And that causes repeated downloads of the same .pdf how?? > > > ...by repeatedly rescanning your website, and repeatedly picking up > > the same things to upload, which is what you'd expect. > > No index page was

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > And that causes repeated downloads of the same .pdf how?? > ...by repeatedly rescanning your website, and repeatedly picking up > the same things to upload, which is what you'd expect. No index page was fetched in between the .pdf downloads of the same .pdf. > Tell you what, why not just cha

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote: I've just noticed that a host known as 'dedicated.jjmorrison.org' , who is obviously using shared hosting somewhere in the US, is visiting my websites (which are LAMP based - tenuous link) and identifying itsenf as a Googlebot, version 2.1. Has anyon

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:02 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Anyone else finding that google DoSes servers on a regular basis? > Downloading the same pdf as fast as they can. If it's only 30 times it's > lucky, bringing the net plan over quota is not unheard of. Just Seeing Steve's reply to this...

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:02 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > few searches relating to this sort of thing, but you need to log in to > > read the forums. > > Against google's terms and might get them kicked off the index. (Does > google cache wemasterworld...?) Yes, Google have webmasterworld (A

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:31:50 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone else finding that google DoSes servers on a regular basis? > > > Downloading the same pdf as fast as they can. If it's only 30 times it's > > > lucky, bringing the net plan over quota is not unheard of. > >

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > Anyone else finding that google DoSes servers on a regular basis? > > Downloading the same pdf as fast as they can. If it's only 30 times it's > > lucky, bringing the net plan over quota is not unheard of. > > No, it works fine for me. Maybe it's your code... like ' href="http://volker.dnsalia

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:02:45 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else finding that google DoSes servers on a regular basis? > Downloading the same pdf as fast as they can. If it's only 30 times it's > lucky, bringing the net plan over quota is not unheard of. No, it works f

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Going back to the previous thread about google/search engines, if you > pretend to be google (or another robot) lots of things work that might > not work otherwise. Andy Leach's link to webmasterworld in this thread > is a good example. Their site comes up as high ranking hits for quite a >

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, I've seen this as well, although one pretending to be Baiduspider in my case which is a Chinese search engine (www.baidu.com is the real site) I was getting 300-400 hits a day from three IP's in a range without reverse DNS records, somewhere in Asia. I put a block on the IP address r

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-26 Thread Andy Leach
Steve Holdoway wrote: I've just noticed that a host known as 'dedicated.jjmorrison.org' , who is obviously using shared hosting somewhere in the US, is visiting my websites (which are LAMP based - tenuous link) and identifying itsenf as a Googlebot, version 2.1. Has anyone else seen similar b

OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
I've just noticed that a host known as 'dedicated.jjmorrison.org' , who is obviously using shared hosting somewhere in the US, is visiting my websites (which are LAMP based - tenuous link) and identifying itsenf as a Googlebot, version 2.1. Has anyone else seen similar behaviour??? Cheers, St