How do I ban a bot

I do not know the IP

[ganderla]

I have had a "search4free" bot eating up hundreds of pages and it needs to be banned, I do not know the IP. How do I do this?

[tomda]

Go to
[botspotter.net...]

and see if the bot is listed in the BAD bots and get the IP

[Marino]

Hi,

See [siteware.ch...]

and then [search4free.com...]

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