[Nottingham] A website attack from google?!

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Mon May 3 20:20:40 UTC 2010


Good comments all round, thanks.

Perhaps we should randomise where the wiki admin pages are... Or just
set Apache to only accept certain IPs...

Mmmm... Or there must be a "n-attempts and you're blocked" module for
Apache for that...


On 03/05/10 20:28, Michael Simms wrote:
> A quick grep through this weeks logs, I get
> 
> crawl-66-249-65-199.googlebot.com - - [02/May/2010:04:45:12 +0100]
> crawl-66-249-71-52.googlebot.com - - [02/May/2010:04:41:38 +0100]
> 
> on the same website. One is loading an image the other is loading an 
> html page. It is possible they use different machines for image and html 
> maybe, I dunno. Still, I think we're debating a fairly insignificant 
> point of law here, with google hitting me for 250K pages on some days, 
> maybe Im just 'special' {:-)

Should you be happy for being such a big hit and for all the search
engine exposure?! ;-)


Cheers,
Martin

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