OpenHoseBot

[keyplyr]

Welcome to Openhose. Openhose is a radical new real-time big data analytics platform that will be open-sourced soon. The SDK's and documentation are currenlty in Beta. Thanks for being a champ and checking it out!

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenHoseBot/2.1; +http://www.openhose.org/bot.html)
Robots.txt: no
Host: AWS
54.144.0.0/12
54.144.0.0 - 54.159.255.255

Note: since AWS cloud hosting is dynamic, ranges will surely change

[lucy24]

Openhose

There's a pun lurking in there somewhere...

Thanks for being a champ and checking it out!

Investigating robot hits in your logs now qualifies as "being a champ"? Whee!

:: detour to confirm that I've currently got 54.144.0.0/12 blocked anyway ::

[keyplyr]

There's a pun lurking in there somewhere...

Almost went for it, then thought... nah.

[keyplyr]

Seems the web site has been taken down, but this bot continues to hit my server a dozen or more times a day.

[tangor]

The irony of the title bot offers many puns. I know I have one or two... but since it is a bot I'll not. :)

And that range is already in my deny, so only shows up as 403s...

Sadly my log filters are more of those these days than 200s.... sigh.

[keyplyr]

And that range is already in my deny, so only shows up as 403s... Sadly my log filters are more of those these days than 200s.... sigh.

A little over a year ago I've switched my approach from blocking, to seeing what I can allow. I want traffic :)

My personal site gets between 27k and 32k successful daily page loads. Before, I was serving an additional 6k in 403s. Now I have it down to around 5 or 6 hundred daily 403s and still reducing.

What I once thought of as bad & blockable, I have since found to be beneficial in some cases. I used to block all marketing and research type companies. Doing some research myself, I have now found that some of these companies furnish potential advertisers with data they use in choosing who to add to their Adsence publishers, which as an Adsense & direct ad publisher myself, benefits me.

Then there's all the server farms, colos, VPNs and data centers I used to block with prejudice. Almost all of them now have cloud ranges that host mobile ISPs, Apps, proxies & social media. Also, many companies now either furnish cell phones to their employees or allow employees to connect on the company wifi. I am constantly adding conditions to my block rules to allow these agents.