Subj : Last couple of days with my binkp mailer.. To : Sean Dennis From : Janis Kracht Date : Sat Aug 21 2010 11:58 am Hi Sean, >> !FTP 66.249.65.83/10 >> !HTTP 66.249.65.83/10 >> !raw 66.249.65.83/10 >> !TCPIP 66.249.65.83/10 > Good idea; I'll just block the entire block from coming in. My web server is > professionally hosted so there's no need for Google to go poking around. Exactly :) Mr. Google-bot was KILLING my already crummy DSL system here - They constantly scan my main apache server on port 80, so it's not like they can't get updates. When they started scanning my BBBS ports (ftp 6071, http 8080, binkp 24555, telnet 23) I'd had enough.. people couldn't even connect to pickup their mail via the internet since I've only got 7 nodes.. and they didn't take up just "one" node... Now thankfully, this is what I'm seeing in the log for just one port, but BBBS is blocking all of BBBS's ports when Google-bot tries: 100821 11:22 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:38215, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:43860, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:42786, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:43327, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:39070, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:45389, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:45336, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:46020, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:46428, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:45457, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:43847, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:44818, blocked by inet.bbb! 100821 11:23 Got FTP from 66.249.65.137:46356, blocked by inet.bbb! [yay! The block then allowed this:] 100821 11:28 Got raw from 173.52.216.2:3038, spawning node 5. 100821 11:28 Closing raw at node 5, 0kB in, 15kB out. 100821 11:28 Got raw from 69.55.228.237:59366, spawning node 6. 100821 11:28 Closing raw at node 6, 0kB in, 7kB out. 100821 11:29 Got raw from 216.66.97.101:4954, spawning node 7. The above shows them hitting the ftp port on BBBS.. but the dogs were hitting all of the BBBS ports, and constantly as shown above for bbbs's ftp.. I even emailed them first.. no response of course..Robots don't talk much and I guess neither does Googles' admin. Who needs it.. Once I saw them hitting all the ports of my bbs, I said, enough! I should just kill them period even on port 80 for apache, and I still may do so . I have free-find indexing my site automatically, and they do it in such a way that it doesn't interfere with anything.. so it's not like google-bot couldn't do it that way if they wanted to! Take care, Janis --- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) .