Posted: 14 October 2011 at 8:41am | IP Logged

Hi,

I usually redirect bad bots to a dead page using the following code:

RewriteCond User-Agent: (?:Xenu).*
RewriteRule .* /999.html [L]

However it isn't working with one particularly bad bod (80legs), which has brought our server down and at times is requested dozens of pages a second from numerous IP addresses around the world.

The user agent line is:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; 008/0.83; http://www.80legs.com/webcrawler.html;) Gecko/2008032620 

I've tried these and neither of them work:

RewriteCond User-Agent: (?:008).*
RewriteCond User-Agent: (?:008/0.83).*

Any ideas on how to redirect this troublemaker gratefully received.

Thanks

Steve

Posted: 17 October 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged

Hi Anton,

Brilliant, I'll give it a go.

Thanks for the help.

Steve