Re: abcl.org/trac/* being spidered by multiple bots

evenson <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jan 2024 13:11:42 +0100
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<html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3D=
utf-8"></head><body dir=3D"auto"><div>On the road back to Austria today; wil=
l commit when I have a chance.</div><br id=3D"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignatur=
e"><div dir=3D"ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br><blockquote t=
ype=3D"cite">On Jan 7, 2024, at 11:52, Erik Huelsmann &lt;ehuelsmann@common-=
lisp.net&gt; wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div=
 dir=3D"ltr">=EF=BB=BF<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hi Mark,</div><div><br></div><di=
v><br></div><div>Last night a number of disruptions in <a href=3D"http://cli=
ki.net">cliki.net</a> availability were reported, a happens regularly lately=
 -- and definitely during the weekly backup.</div><div><br></div><div>So I c=
hecked the server this morning. The server had a load of 50 (&gt;15 per cpu)=
; 80% of that was going to Trac, however the access log trac.common-lisp.net=
_access.log was silent. Turns out all the traffic was on <a href=3D"http://a=
bcl.org">abcl.org</a>. It was being spidered like crazy. Trac - or our serve=
r setup (or both) - really isn't up to that task, which is why there is only=
 limited spidering allowed on <a href=3D"http://trac.common-lisp.net">trac.c=
ommon-lisp.net</a>. (Enough to spider "current" trunk of projects and their i=
ssues.)</div><div><br></div><div>To restrict spidering, I've changed the rob=
ots.txt file at /project/armedbear/public_html/robots.txt.</div><div><br></d=
iv><div>Could you please commit that robots.txt&nbsp; (or an even stricter o=
ne) to the repository that the site is being synced from?</div><div><br></di=
v><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><b=
r></div><div>Erik.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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