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But it didn't help me with my problem a lot. I run a small site which gets hit by these so hard, that my site statistics gone useless and my site severely slowed down.
It identifies as:
and comes from:
host217-44-159-86.range217-44.btcentralplus.com
Can someone help stopping this? I have access to .htaccess and robots.txt. I tried to modify .htaccess, but it didn't work out, maybe I did something wrong.
deny from 217.44.159.86
or
deny from 217.44.159.
to block a larger part
- Tony
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
NTL Internet of GB is also part of BT.
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^194\.(7[2-5])\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^195\.47\.36\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^217\.3([2-9]¦4[0-7])\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^217\.35\.209\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^217\.(4[2-4])\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^62\.7\.(24[0-7])\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^81\.(12[89]¦1[3-5][0-9])\. [OR]
I have more of this ISP's ranges accumulated. They are just not convereted to strings.
Sticky me if you desire the rest.
I've seen the same UA myself and it's malformed as described - it's not just a user typo.
- Tony
Ah, never seen that myself, thanks for the info.
In that case, matching for the malformed string is probably more effective than sweeping large IP ranges:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} [red][3]CLR\ 1$[/3][/red]Btw: For those who missed wilderness' joke, I'd recommend to think twice about following his example. I'm don't have exact numbers about btinternets market share, but it looks like a safe bet that he's banning a significant portion of the british online population.
That's fine if you're pronouncedly anti-british, but probably not appropriate for most normal sites... ;)
but it looks like a safe bet that he's banning a significant portion of the british online population.That's fine if you're pronouncedly anti-british
Bird,
I'm nearly anti everything ;)
At least, those markets which I feel are NOT beneficial to my sites.
Sometime back I was teased about my DE denying as well.
I'm all for the occassional visits from RIPE and other reigons. However when a visitor either promotes a page which I intend to provide reference, it is not my desire to have the masses indexing that linked page as well as major portions of my non-profit site which they can accumulate resources from beyond their conception at that time. Most return later grabbing many pages.
It's a trend I've learned from monitoring my logs.
The content of my sites is primarily North American. It is those markets which I desire. The RIPE interests in specific content does not offer me that capability of monitoring without extending my observations beyond the market range I'm interested in. In other words their visits and links provide more work in an already non-profit situation. As well as (at least in most instances) the required use of online translation.
I guess a simple alternative would be for me to expand my htaccess to specific folders, which I had not thought about previously. At least until composing this reply ;)
Thanks for the help :)
Don
I rest my case!
