You are stopping them inside apache now. Next obvious step is a firewall. Either on the server on a dedicated box in front of it. regs, Christian On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:57:17PM -0800, Charles Michener wrote: > I have a couple of spider bots hitting my server that I do not wish to have access to my pages - they ignore robots.txt, so I finally put them on my 'deny from xxxxx' list. This does deny them access but they persist to keep trying - trying each page address at least 30 times - several hits per second . Is there a standard method to forward them to some black hole or the FBI or ...? > > Charles > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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