Blocking bad bots

[phil]

On Jun 14, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Rob Sutherland wrote:

> Is there any way to stop it from doing its thing without just blocking
> all the IPs  from Hurricane Electric?

I've had some very bad experience with trying to get HE to shut down 
spammers in the past, so I'm not sure why blocking all their addresses 
would be a bad thing.  :-)  Tempting would be to redirect all of their 
requests to a "tar pit": endless randomly generated links, pointing to 
randomly generated content, on a very slow connection.

More practically, how about:
<http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/1287/42/>
<http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/>

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Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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