Hey yall,
the past of couple days my site has been getting "crawled" heavily by the omniexplorer_bot.
I have the Protector Module installed, but this particular bot isn't triggering the "bad bot count" setting of 30.

What I would like to do is block the entire range that omni-explorer comes from. So my question is, what is the proper way to put an entire IP range into the Banned IP's of the Protector Module?

Would it be abc.abc.abc.abc-abc or abc.abc.abc.abc/nn?
Or do I have to start typing each address in one at a time?
Thanks for any input.
Joe

You can block by the User-Agent string. Add this to your htaccess file if you have access to it.

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SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^OmniExplorer_Bot" bad_bot

<Limit GET POST>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
</Limit>
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or you could also try the following again in your htaccess file


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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^OmniExplorer [OR]
RewriteRule ^.* - [F]
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Hey stuie200,
great suggestion. One small issue, my server uses a very customized Red Hat based O/S that does not use .htaccess. It uses many other checks and balances.

It would be possible to enable .htaccess, but it would break the update chain. This is why I would like to use the Protector Module.

I am going to re-investigate the option of adding the .htaccess, it may be worth breaking the chain if there is an easy work around to continued updating.
Thanks
Joe