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Author:  Satis [ Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:46 am ]
Post subject:  bots suck my nuts

so...I was perusing my server reporting and ran into this gem (attached). Seems that someone in France hit my website for 43,000 page views and 2.5 GB of bandwidth. For comparison, this one person in one day pulled more bandwidth than my site used up in the month of January. Bastards. It had to be a bot. It looks like the hits were all on posting.php and viewtopic.php so I guess it just trolled through my website either trying to spam or just harvesting info. Or something.

Whoever it is is a customer of Proxad in France.

Author:  RB [ Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:46 am ]
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Code:
// ...

// method returns true if post was successful
while(!bot.post(page));

// ...

Ugly. Block the bastard. Make it get null page per hit.

Author:  pevil [ Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:57 am ]
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wow, thats one determined bot!

Author:  Satis [ Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:22 pm ]
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heh, I should block all of France. :p

Author:  Arathorn [ Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:21 pm ]
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Have you tried contacting the ISP with that info? Most ISP's have an abuse address.

Author:  Satis [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:36 am ]
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I did that once upon a time. It was greeted with a whole lot of silence. They could care less unless you come knocking with a lawyer.

Anyway, it's not a big deal. I have 8TB of transfer per month, I believe. This barely even registered toward my meter. I just found it annoying is all.

Author:  RB [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:53 am ]
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True. These people never respond. My experience is the same once my IP was flooded.

Author:  Satis [ Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:22 am ]
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yea, it's not much use. I plan on rebuilding the site again at some point... perhaps building in some mechanism to recognize and minimize the impact of stuff like that is a good idea. IE, run a select count(*) within the last hours and if the hits are >1000 just return an empty page. Can't stop em from hitting it but I can stop them from getting much bandwidth out of it... just the packet header and a 0 byte payoad.

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