Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to rid a pest?

2007-12-17 Thread Dragon
Charles Michener wrote: I have a couple of spider bots hitting my server that I do not wish to have access to my pages - they ignore robots.txt, so I finally put them on my 'deny from x' list. This does deny them access but they persist to keep trying - trying each page address at least

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to rid a pest?

2007-12-16 Thread Christian Folini
You are stopping them inside apache now. Next obvious step is a firewall. Either on the server on a dedicated box in front of it. regs, Christian On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:57:17PM -0800, Charles Michener wrote: I have a couple of spider bots hitting my server that I do not wish to have

[EMAIL PROTECTED] How to rid a pest?

2007-12-15 Thread Charles Michener
I have a couple of spider bots hitting my server that I do not wish to have access to my pages - they ignore robots.txt, so I finally put them on my 'deny from x' list. This does deny them access but they persist to keep trying - trying each page address at least 30 times - several hits per