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Old 14-09-2008, 02:43 AM
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Does anyone have a complete list of IP ranges for the Voila Bot?

It's been hammering this server all day, which is why the site was so slow (amazing what you can find out form Apache's server status page!)

I've managed to block two ranges at the kernel level via iptables, but I'd prefer to:
  • find out all ranges being used
  • block them all
  • apply the same block to any other servers I manage
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Just to put things in perspective ...
There have been 73195 requests from that bot on one site alone
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Actually it's not the number of requests that is causing the problem .. Googlebot has sent 235980 requests over the same period of time...
Whatever way VoilaBot is pulling across pages it's causing serious issues
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Googlebot has sent 235980 requests over the same period of time...
Wtf? I'm surprised Google's servers haven't been pulled offline by now with that many requests
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