ETS v5.1 what is it?

[bobmark]

Anyone know what this thing is?
it takes a ton of pages at a very rapid rate. I banned it and it happily keeps on generating 403 after 403.
All I can find is it resolves to:
OrgName: Friends of Synergytics
OrgID: DTEK
Address: Synergytics
Address: 21 Hinds Lane
City: Pelham
StateProv: NH
PostalCode: 03076
Country: US

NetRange: 207.228.192.0 - 207.228.223.255

but that doesn't help a lot as that is a lot of addresses in the range.

Thanks,
Mark

p.s. I searched this site diligently, so apologies if this is old news.

[chris_f]

Sorry but I've never heard of it. It's now on my ban list though.

Thanks :)
Chris

[balam]

"ETS v5.1" is the (new) UA used by the FreeTranslation.com translation bot.

Previous UAs (in the last year) have been:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; H010818)

This bot, which only visits (and translates) pages requested by visitors to your web site, only visits from 207.228.216.168.

Banning this UA means that folks like me can't translate your (English/German/Italian/Dutch/Norwegian/Spanish/Portuguese) web page into English/German/Italian/......

(A new addition at the site is English to Simplified or Traditional Chinese.)

FreeTranslation encourages webmasters to add a translation link on your site... With a little server side magic, you too can have links on every page on your site that translates the page for your visitor with one click! VERY nice, and VERY used on my site.

I'm told - by native speakers - that the translations from FreeTranslation are better than Google or Babelfish, and - the biggest plus for me (just as a personal preference) - your translated page isn't framed with Google of AV stuff at the top, just your page in whatever language. Also, I have yet to come across a page that wasn't completely translated... I'm not sure about Babelfish, but Google will only translate "so much." (By that I mean, Google only translates the first "x" Kb of the page - I'm not sure of the cutoff size...)

The translation doesn't affect ("normal") site navigation, and if a visitor moves from the translated page to some other page in your site, they leave a referrer like...

[fets3.freetranslation.com...] www.yoursite.com/index.html

...in your logs, so if they stay for more that the one translated page you'll also know the language they're interested in. (Not necessarily their native tongue though; I natively speak English, but translate English pages into Spanish - trying to learn the language.)

There's only one thing about the service I don't like - and that's how this thread got started. "ETS v5.1" doesn't tell you much... Would it hurt an honest bot to advertise where it comes from? (And earlier, shamelessly hiding behind a valid MS UA. Tsk, tsk...)

Hope that helps answer some questions...

FYI: Not affiliated, just very satisfied...

balam

<added>Was nosing around the FreeTranslation site and discovered that "ETS" stands for "Enterprise Translation Server." I'm no expert, but I'll hazard a guess that they're up to version 5.1. ;) </added>

[wilderness]

By golly! They must be ok?
They haven't made my deny list ;)

BTW Jim, while we're here?
I reall you once providing an example of allowing the Google and Babel URL's for translation links while preventing deep linking of images from the cache which these translators use.

Any chance you can add it one more time. . .

Don

[jdMorgan]

OK, updating the "image hot-link block bypass" code that wilderness is asking about for this newest translation service, we get:

# Block linking from outside our domain except Google, Yahoo AltaVista, Gigablast, Comet
# Systems, SearchHippo, Wayback Machine, and freetranslation.com translators and caches
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
# your domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www\.mydomain\.com
# your server's IP address
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://192\.168\.0\.1
# Google
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216\.239\.(3[2-9]¦[45][0-9]¦6[0-3])\..*www\.mydomain\.com
# Yahoo
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://66\.218\.(64¦[78][0-9]¦9[0-5])\.[0-9]{1,3}/search/cache.*www\.mydomain\.com
# AltaVista
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://babel\.altavista.com/.*www\.mydomain\.com
# Gigablast
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216\.243\.113\.1/
Comet Systems
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://search.*\.cometsystems\.com/search.*www\.mydomain\.com
# SearchHippo
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*searchhippo\.com.*www\.mydomain\.com
# Archive.org/Wayback Machine
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://web\.archive\.org/web/.*/http://www\.mydomain\.com
# Freetranslation.com
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDRESS}!^207\.228\.(19[2-9]¦2[01][0-9]¦22[0-3])\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://fets\.freetranslation\.com.*mydomain
# Old Netscape JavaScript
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^wysiwyg://[0-9]{1,2}/http://www\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule \.(jpg¦jpeg?¦gif¦js¦css)$ - [F]

I don't want to hijack this thread... If there are any questions about this code, let's start a new one.

Jim

[balam]

(I don't think this post warrants making a new thread so.....)

In over a year of using the FreeTranslation service, I haven't seen them use any IP other than 207.228.216.168 (so you may want to tweak the RewriteCond accordingly), but the referrer URL has changed.

Previously, a port number was included in the URL (:5081, I think), but that was removed a couple of months ago. I'm not familiar enough with regexps in Rewrite rules to know if your RewriteCond will cope with this.

If you want to be truly on top of things, FreeTranslation now asks for your email address so that they can inform you of changes to their system. (I figure this is in response to the number of errors they're now receiving due to folks that don't know the URL has changed...)

Just two more cents...

balam

[wilderness]

balam

the ".*" gets all sub pages and folders.

Jim is on top of these things which is a big help to many folks.
As is normal in endeavors there is occassional typos.

"Comet Systems" I believe should be "# Comet Systems"?
as it's a reference line.

Don