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If my users want to go where I ask them not to go when they have no reason at all to go there, their problem. There are no links anywhere to those dirs, except
by psykovsky 11y ago
If my users want to go where I ask them not to go when they have no reason at all to go there, their problem. There are no links anywhere to those dirs, except for the robots.txt. Also, the blocks lift after a couple days. Honestly, nobody ever complained, and I'm sure it stops/hampers some attacks dead on.
- kjjw 11y agoUsers share IPs.
- psykovsky 11y agoThe websites I manage aren't Facebook or Google sized. Or even HN sized. I don't see that as a real problem at all.
- castell 11y agoYou see it not as problem, because user don't see you (your sites). As IPv4 are getting rare, many share the same IP. So it's really a bad practice to ban IP for a longer period.
- malka 11y agowith bots ? If an Ip does not respect the host rules, it deserves to be blocked.
- germanier 11y agoFor a start, the entire nation of Qatar shares 82.148.97.69.
- kjjw 11y agoWhat do you mean 'with bots'? We're talking about anyone at all hitting a link blocking the IP they have. Some mobile networks have every person on the network originating traffic from the same IP. Some large institutions, universities, government departments, large companies have all their traffic coming from one IP. This person has effectively created a feature that will perform a denial of service attack on their own website.
- AgentME 11y agorobots.txt tells robots where not to go.