Re: [mv] MV goes down, because a robot have visited my site!

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <hans-joachim.leidinger@home.gelsen-net.de>]

Ryan Hertz wrote:
> >
> >http://www.altavista.com/av/content/addurl_exclude.htm
> >
> >
> 
>         Personally, even with a robots.txt file excluding 'bots from my store, I
> still get a few coming in.  Especially from non-US sites, where they
> probably don't follow the same conventions.  I would look more into the
> lockout command.
> 

This is right. I have heard, that some robots donīt read the robot.txt
files. After my holiday, i will be create a robot.txt, .htaccess and
later the lockout command.

Is it possible to patch the minivend to deny this robot? What i mean is,
is minivend not able to block this robot and to prevent any access by
this robot dynamically? If minivend is able to log message (BAD ROBOT)
into the error log, is minivend not able to deny all access from this
robot?

Can someone explain me, why MV goes down after a robot has visited the
shop? Is there an extra exit codes? Or what is the problem with robot?
Or what is the cause to break the minivend server running?

Regards,

Joachim

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