Subj : Web server and BOT's
To   : Richard Vonzel
From : MRO
Date : Wed Jun 25 2025 14:02:22

  Re: Web server and BOT's
  By: Richard Vonzel to All on Wed Jun 25 2025 04:25 am

 > I turned on the Synchronet Web server, works great, hsad my website running.
 > Had my BBS's files available for access thru it. Yesterday I guess a BOT got
 > on my site and jst downloaded all the file I had available. Here's the log
 > entry for this,
 >
 >   6/24  05:36:27p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] Request 1825: GET
 > /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_ads&thread=105 HTTP/1.1
 >   6/24  05:36:27p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
 > AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2;
 > +https://openai.com/gptbot)
 >   6/24  05:36:28p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] Request 1826: GET
 > /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=177 HTTP/1.1
 >   6/24  05:36:28p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

 > Is there a way to stop someone from using a BOT to take the files besides
 > turning off the server?

yeah there's a lot of ways.  you can also just make it so logged in users have access to your msgs and files.   please checkout the wiki and just read through it in your free time.

The synchronet docs overall are a good source of information, unlike most other bbs softwares.

you're running a service available to the entire internet. someone could go in and do some horrible stuff if you don't secure your system.
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