Gazopa Feast

Far too many hits

[dstiles]

One site, 800 403'd hits in one hour. That is ludicrous! It hit each page, including bot traps, several times each - it's only a small site.

205.140.208.nn
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GazoPabot/1.0; +http://www. gazopa.com/ gazopa_bot)

(spaces added to url by me)

From google description:

"GazoPa is an image search engine that search for similar images. Upload a photo or draw a picture and it will show you visually similar images on the web."

Not from MY server, it won't!

Blocked in IIS Directory Security. I'll hopefully never see it again.

[Pfui]

This time around, any sign of HTMLParser, too? [webmasterworld.com...]

Too bad bot-runners don't code, oh: If X number of 403s in 48 hours, then steer clear.

FWIW, I've blocked loads of Savvis IPs for ages.

[dstiles]

No parser this time, no.

I'm a bit wary of blocking savvis en masse since I suspect there is some broadband stuff in there. If someone could reassure me...

So far I've blocked all I've found except 208.128.0.0 - 208.167.191.255 which doesn't seem to look like servers apart from the odd small range such as 208.131.25.0 - 208.131.25.255. No doubt a few more will emerge from the traps. :)

[wilderness]

I'm a bit wary of blocking savvis en masse since I suspect there is some broadband stuff in there. If someone could reassure me...

I've no way to assure you, however if your interested in becoming aware of the Savvis sub-net ranges the following are guidelines.

1) Go to ARIN and do a search on "Savvis"
2) Amongst the results will be a group of listings
Savvis SAVVIS
3) Copy these into a text editor
4) Take the beginning of each individual range and do a new search at ARIN beginning the greater than character (>), followed by a space and paste in the beginning IP range.
5) Copy and paste the results into your new SavisSubNetFile.
6) Duplicate steps 4 & 5 for each of ranges in step 2.

As an aside, after jumping through all these hoops?
You'll likely never access the SavisSubNetFile again ;)

[dstiles]

Thanks.

That tells me which ranges belong to savvis and general usage but it doesn't differentiate (eg) business DSL from business hosting. But then, very few DNS records ever do. :(

I will take time asap to go through it more closely, though. An interesting technique! Thanks. :)