Anyone know how to block a range of IP addresses in IIS 5?

block group of computers

[semick]

I specifically wanted to block a few spiders from ONE page which is in my robots exclude file - by their entire class C range...What is the easiest way to do this?

I see the "Deny Acesss for Group" but you need the subnet mask, which I am not sure how to get for each range I want to block.

[Dreamquick]

There are 1m+1 online subnet calculators on the web, a quick google search should get you somewhere where you can type in the address range and have a subnet mask pop out...

[Jack_Straw]

Semmick,

It looks like you are heading down the wrong path based on a mis-diagnosis.

Your other thread shows an invalid robots.txt.

Start with a valid robots.txt. That will work for well behaved spiders. You should only resort to IP cloaking for mis-behaved spiders after you find that they do not obey a valid robot.txt file. If the spiders you are trying to block are from major search engines, then they will obey the robots.txt and you will not have to resort to the trickier methods you are asking about here.

[jdMorgan]

Well, I hope semick is checking these replies - that robots.txt file was toast!

Jim

[semick]

I am reading the replies, and will check the robots.txt file out...

Thanks much,

Scott Emick