Re: Crawler problems

Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:10:11 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Organization Green Gecko Global Ltd.
Message-ID <1321909811.17618.358.camel@steve-desktop>
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 10:00 +1300, Mark Foster wrote:

> Baidubot went nuts on my image gallery last month - blew out my
> bandwidth limits. They're now blocked at the supernet in the webserver
> config (returning errors to everything, now). 180.76.5.0/24 occupies 29
> of the top 30 IP's to visit my image gallery this month. Each request is
> zero'd-out byte-wize due to the drop, but as I can't firewall the
> connections off, they continue to pollute my log files.

Good* to know I'm not alone. I firewalled 180.76.5.0/24 and
180.76.6.0/24 to drop Baidu.

Cheers,

Steve

*Well, maybe a new definition of good, but you know what I mean.

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Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]>
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