.htaccess question - block by IP - does this look right? - GoFuckYourself.com

Mishi · 04-24-2003, 11:55 PM

Hey Apache gurus, need your help.

Lately I've been getting a lot of 404 errors caused by agent "Lachesis". Most of the 404s are occuring for style sheets that I know exist and are where they belong.

Google returned very little about Lachesis other than it refers to a venomous snake and a Fate in Greek mythology. It may be a harmless bot, or it may be a vicious bandwidth thief - couldn't really tell.

Anyway, I disallowed it in robots.txt, but it's still coming around (bad bot, BAD!), and since all the requests seem to be coming from the same remote IP, I decided to ban the IP with .htaccess. I've never done this before and want to know if this looks right (I cut and pasted it from a mainstream webmaster forum).

(Limit GET PUT POST)
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
deny from xxx.xx.xxx.xx
(/limit)

(Replace the parentheses above with "<" and ">", and of course the x's with numbers.)

Am I on track here?

Thanks!

sacX · 04-25-2003, 12:22 AM

yep looks fine. I banned that today as well dunno what it is.

Mishi · 04-25-2003, 12:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sacX
yep looks fine. I banned that today as well dunno what it is.

Thanks much. Yeah, there's not a lot of info on it that I could find. It's a pain in the ass, though.

04-24-2003, 11:55 PM	#1
Mishi Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,054	.htaccess question - block by IP - does this look right? Hey Apache gurus, need your help. Lately I've been getting a lot of 404 errors caused by agent "Lachesis". Most of the 404s are occuring for style sheets that I know exist and are where they belong. Google returned very little about Lachesis other than it refers to a venomous snake and a Fate in Greek mythology. It may be a harmless bot, or it may be a vicious bandwidth thief - couldn't really tell. Anyway, I disallowed it in robots.txt, but it's still coming around (bad bot, BAD!), and since all the requests seem to be coming from the same remote IP, I decided to ban the IP with .htaccess. I've never done this before and want to know if this looks right (I cut and pasted it from a mainstream webmaster forum). (Limit GET PUT POST) Order allow,deny Allow from all deny from xxx.xx.xxx.xx (/limit) (Replace the parentheses above with "<" and ">", and of course the x's with numbers.) Am I on track here? Thanks! __________________ Looking for PHP/MySQL solutions? Check out Cyboriginal - custom scripts, installation services and more. Last edited by Mishi; 04-24-2003 at 11:59 PM..

04-25-2003, 12:22 AM	#2
sacX Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2,998	yep looks fine. I banned that today as well dunno what it is.