[Coco] Someones bots are abusing my downloads

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/1/19 1:49 PM, Ken Flanagan wrote:
> On Fri., Nov. 1, 2019, 10:35 a.m. Gene Heskett, <gheskett at shentel.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> They ae not just indexing my place, they were sucking the whole thing,
>> one file at a time and keeping my 250 kilobaud uplink bandwidth full for
>> the last 4 or so hours.  That a DDOS AFAIAC. Kill them on sight.
>> Here is typical log entry:
>>
>> coyote.coyote.den:80 46.229.168.141 - -
>> [01/Nov/2019:13:33:16 -0400] "GET
>> /gene/nitros9/3rdparty/packages/uucpbb/doc/uucp.man
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 3142 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot/6~bl;
>> +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)"
>>
> 
> Do you have a robots.txt file on your server? If you do and they're
> ignoring it, I would suggest contacting the respective companies.

I doubt they will care.

A better bet is to block them at the firewall so they can't
even connect.

bill