RE: Google "Indexing" (Harvesting Attack)

[Mieko Yamaguchi <iss053@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This reminds me - shouldn't we ask Innovative to reconsider the decision
they made a while ago to turn off name lookup for http access in "List
non-local access attempts allowed"?  The N > Display host NAME command
gives you blank lines for http access.

Now I know that 216.239.193.xxx (in our case) are googlebot but how do
I know if 213.122, 212.137, 205.188.209, 62.7, or 62.136 are genuine users
or robots?  We have a large number of entries with these root IP numbers.
I know there are ways to find out but it's not as convenient as being able
to see host names by hitting a single key.

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Peter Murray wrote:

> I don't know if someone has suggested this yet, but you can also
> include an entry in the  "Limit NETWORK access" table (under Login
> Administration) to block the Google 'bot.  Add an entry for 216.239.46
> and say "n" when prompted for "Allow access".  (See R2000 manual at
> record #15269.)
>
> It sounds like we should all take a lesson from this and change our
> configuration to block them.  I know I just did...

Mieko
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