COAST WebMaster

[Pfui]

protect-129-174-52-nn.mesa.gmu.edu
COAST WebMaster/4.1.1.1 (Windows NT)

robots.txt? NO

A link-checking Swiss Army Knife'esque thing. Too bad for them there's only room for one webmaster on my sites. Ahem.

[GaryK]

Sure wish I could blindly ban everything from a edu TLD. Unfortunately I have one site that gets a lot of human-powered visits from edu (and gov) TLDs so I have to be sure I'm only banning bots not humans.

[Pfui]

The vast majority of my troublesome .edu hits come from computer science types running all sorts of bots on university servers, including pesky 'personal' Nutch projects. Ergo, it's redirection detention for all of 'em:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} \.cs\. [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} \.cse\. [OR]

(Note no NC.) If you'd prefer school-specific snippets:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} \.cs\.univname\.edu$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} \.cse\.univname\.edu$ [OR]

Whitelist as need be.