Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-25 Thread Martin WHEELER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I've now been 24 hours without a hit, so I'm presuming I've got rid of all the crawlers. Thanks for all the help and advice from both lists. Resume: - - the openfind.com(.tw) 'bots don't respect the norobots conventions, so your robots.txt is us

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-25 Thread Martin WHEELER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I've now been 24 hours without a hit, so I'm presuming I've got rid of all the crawlers. Thanks for all the help and advice from both lists. Resume: - - the openfind.com(.tw) 'bots don't respect the norobots conventions, so your robots.txt is u

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Wagner
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

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Wagner
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

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Tim Haynes
Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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*? Nope. How does it paralyse you, anyway? > Despite what I put in any

rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Martin WHEELER
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

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Michael Blickenstorfer
Hi all On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:13:29PM +, Tim Haynes wrote: > Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 *e

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Dave Watkins wrote: > I'm sure it's been said before but why not just configure iptables to drop > the packets from 139.175.250.23? > > Then it CAN'T connect Already done. It's just taking a little while to kill off 16 different crawlers, which I hadn't appreciated was what w

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Dave Watkins
I'm sure it's been said before but why not just configure iptables to drop the packets from 139.175.250.23? Then it CAN'T connect At 07:34 PM 11/24/01 +, Martin WHEELER wrote: >On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > > Despite what I put in any robots.txt, this one disregards all

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
Once upon a time (actually it was more like Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:32:04 + (UTC)), Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Dave Watkins
I'm sure it's been said before but why not just configure iptables to drop the packets from 139.175.250.23? Then it CAN'T connect At 07:34 PM 11/24/01 +, Martin WHEELER wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Despite what I put in any robots.txt, this one disregards all rules a

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > 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. > > Have you actually seen: > http://www.openfind.com.tw/robo

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
Once upon a time (actually it was more like Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:32:04 + (UTC)), Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 s

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-23 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Michael Blickenstorfer wrote: > But you can try... Yeah. I have been. For about ten days now. :( [BTW, my mis-attribution of origin was deliberate. This Bad Attitude 'Bot has *really* got up my nose.] But by applying *all* the useful suggestions made on this list (tha

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-23 Thread Michael Blickenstorfer
Hi all On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:13:29PM +, Tim Haynes wrote: > Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 *ev

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-23 Thread Tim Haynes
Martin WHEELER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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*? Nope. How does it paralyse you, anyway? > Despite what I put in any

rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-23 Thread Martin WHEELER
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'