Ban IP or ban UA?

[skuba]

Hi guys,
I have been reading many many threads here in trying to find the best way to ban bad bots from my site.
By looking at my stats I can identify the hosts taking more of my bandwidth. I am really just worried about bots that are taking let's say a few megs to gigs on my site.

But, what's the difference of blocking IPs on .htaccess by using the Deny command versus using RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR}to block the user agent?

I mean, what is more effective?

And is there a way to do a reverse lookup on the IP address to find out if it's really a bad bot or just a regular user?

Thanks a lot

[skuba]

Hey guys...
Nobody to give me some advice here?

Pleeeeeease...

[wilderness]

The "most effective way" is what ever works for you and is compatible with your host/server.

A simple Beginning
[webmasterworld.com...]
Close to Perfect Htaccess
[webmasterworld.com...]

In additon if your do a google on htaccess? you'll find enough to keep you busy for week or two.

Don

[edited by wilderness]

there are registrars for looking up IP's.
ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC.
There are also tools such as Geroge's canufly or
Dns stuff
[dnsstuff.com...]

to assist you. Do server side on host look-ups is too CPU intensive.

[cooldoug]

There is NukeSentinel™ 2.1.0 by: [NukeScripts.net...] It blochs harvestors from your site using PHP.

[wilderness]

There is N

In three different browsers, all I see was a blank and completed page.

[pendanticist]

Mebe it's NukeCops?