IP Address Blocking In Effect

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IP Address Blocking In Effect

« on: May 22, 2007, 02:43:19 AM »

There is a nasty "robot" from the domain http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/ that is using up to 6.45 GB of bandwidth per day. It doesn't appear to honor our "robots.txt" file that tells them what to link. It hails from a range of IP addresses owned by PSI.NET out of Washington DC. I have blocked the entire range of IP addresses starting with 38.99.*.*, so if you know of anyone who has had trouble connecting to messing-about.com, that may be the reason.

There is no solution to the problem. Search engines are now banned from messing-about.com and my sister sites via the use of the robots.txt file, and I will continue to restrict IP addresses from robots that don't honor the robots.txt file.


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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2007, 10:57:24 AM »

Frank,
Is this related to the loss of being able to save a topic thread anymore? I discovered this was gone last month.
Thanks,
Greg Luckett


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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2007, 05:28:17 PM »

No, it wouldn't affect that. I may have wiped that one out with one of the upgrades the software requires, but I don't recall when I did it!

Some of the features are "add ons" that I have to add back in whenever there is an upgrade. We did have a "Save Topic" and a "Print Topic" button a while back, didn't we?


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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2007, 06:22:54 PM »

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Yes, I think you are correct. I had also forgotten the "Print Topic". Laughing

Will we be able to get the "Save Topic" back?
Thanks. Smile


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