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

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 11:29 AM 10/23/1999 , you wrote:
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>Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
>> 
>> ******    message to minivend-users from "Otis Gospodnetic"
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>> You can maybe try stopping this robot at the Web server level. Here is an
>> example for Apache:
>> 
>> #OG deny bad user-agents (e.g. email grabbers)
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "EmailSiphon"         BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "ExtractorPro"        BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "CherryPicker"        BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "EmailCollector"      BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "EmailWolf"           BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "NICErsPRO"           BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "WebBandit"           BADUA
>> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Telesoft"            BADUA
>> 
>> <Location />
>>        order allow,deny
>>        allow from all
>>        deny from env=BADUA
>> </Location>
>> 
>> Otis
>
>This is a fine informations! But if i know the bad robot, i am able to
>deny any access for this robot. What i ask for is (is this phrase
>right?), is MV able to regonize a bad robot and able to deny all access
>for this robot?

	The MiniVend detection for a 'bad robot' is if the robot requests (I
think) more than 50 pages without a 30 second pause.  There is a lockout
command that MiniVend will execute on the IP of the bot if this occurs.  If
you're not into IP firewalling you could possibly have MiniVend log the
User-Agent of that particular bot/user/session and place it into your
Apache config to deny.
	BTW, Otis, that is a fine example of Apache denying, thank you.  ;-)

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>Joachim 
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