I seem to be under attack

[heron87]

I have constently got around 60 users online, yet they do not show up in any analytic software (woopra google etc) so I suspect thet these are a hord of bots having a wale of a time, yet I owuld like to block them using either .htaccess or robots.txt, but how???

[heron87]

also my domain is http://www.psnlounge.com

[Maxim M.]

Please have a look. Might be helpful:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/...htaccess.shtml

[heron87]

hay, thanks for your reply, I have read the article that you recommended, but it seems to be more confusing, like this says

''You need to have a specific bot that you wish to block. If you arrived at this page hoping to find a list of bots to block, you're at the wrong place. This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block.''

I don't know what bots i want to block as I have no idea what im looking for, all i know is that I have a constant 60+ users online that do not appear in any analytic software what I would like, is a way to bad all bots except, google, yahoo, ask, Alexa, web archive,

yet even better if somebody can tell me how to find out what the bot is that is attacking me then that would be great, but im worried that there are 60+ bots attacking me rather than one or 2, in that case it would be better to just block everything but the main search engines like Google Yahoo ect

[Tony]

I'm unaware of any way to block specific bots without knowing something about them.

What software are you using that's telling you there are 60 users online? Are you sure there's no built in way to see where they're from?

It could just be the yahoo slurp bots which, as I recall, beginning a year or so ago inexplicably started crawling sites with 50 bots at a time. There are tricks to slow them down. But ya gotta know if that's them.

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 1500

[heron87]

the software i am using, is just a simply who is online module, yet none of them appear in my woopra monitor yet actual users do i.e real people

how would I find out the naes of the offending bots so that I can try and stop them also I have done

''User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 1500 ''

so we will see if that solves it!

[heron87]

that didnt work, anybody got anyother ideas, as I created a new robots.txt, only allowing the major seach engines, (not yahoo) and im still gettong 60+ guests any other ideas?

[Alan B]

robots.txt is only for crawlers (search engine bots). Plus, it only works for those crawlers that respect the directives contained in robots.txt. It does not prevent anything, it just contains your preferences that you want crawlers to follow.

So, reputable search engines such as Google and Yahoo will respect and obey robots.txt. Many rogue crawlers will just ignore it.

And, if these bots are now search engine crawliers but are, instead, some sort of hack or control attempt, robots.txt is entirely irrelevant.

[Alan B]

Perhaps you should ask the question at the forum of the software you use. It might be a known issue with that software. I don't see the same issue with other forums software.

[heron87]

quite strange, I done a dir move, (moved a sub domain, to the root domain with the assistance of tech support and all the 60 odd bots seem to have gone? quite strange