How to kill the Mattie MP3 Spider

This Spider is eating my bandwidth

[hellier]

Can anyone advise me on how to stop a search engine spider called 'Mattie'. it's sole purpose is to sniff out MP3's.

I have tried to visit the guy's web site and email. (Both are dead).

This spider eats up considerable bandwidth on my server. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

M

[agerhart]

Welcome to WmW Hellier.

Have you disallowed to bot in your robots.txt?

[gethan]

Hi Hellier,

[webmasterworld.com...]

Sounds like you have another spider to add to toolmans ban list. The basic advantage of using the method in the post above is that you control which spiders are allowed access - whereas with robots.txt your reliant on the spider to follow your instructions.

Caveats: needs apache with mod_rewrite, slight performance hit.