The best way would be to block it at your router with an access list. Blocking it at the box is ok too but that takes a little bit of your resources. And you have to do it on each box on your network you want protected. The router block will protect your entire network in one fell swoop and cost your boxes no resources.
You can block just his ip address with a deny statement, or if he's scanning from multiple ip's you can chunk his whole network. But that ip (139.175.250.23) is under a huge Seed-net /16. You might end up blocking legitimate traffic. You can try to guess his local subnet mask and block that, like a /27 or something. On a related topic I've been receiving an enormous amount of spam coming through Asian mx's. Is there any effort underway to try and get these people to lock down their networks? We've got a bunch of rogue mailservers over there. At 05:32 PM 11/23/01 +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote: >Is anyone else having problems with the robot from > > openfind.com.tw > >-- an intrusive, irritating, hard-to-get-rid-of crawler that completely >paralyses my system *every day*? > >Despite what I put in any robots.txt, this one disregards all rules and >just jams up my system, downloading every damn' thing in sight. >Mails to the owners are totally disregarded. > >Anyone know of a sure-fire robot killer under woody? > >Who should this thing be reported to to get it stopped? ---=<REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER>=--- ___/`< WTC 911 >`\___ 00000100