aol is a busy searcher?

Worker Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 227

It seems around 10:00 pm CSt in the evening I get hit with a lot of AOL IP's. (152.163.x.x) Is this their search engine? It doesn't seem to be so.

01: 152.163.252.102
02: 152.163.252.39
03: 152.163.252.3
04: 152.163.253.72
05: 152.163.252.194
06: 152.163.253.67
07: 152.163.252.1
08: 152.163.253.103
09: 152.163.253.34
10: 24.208.18.4
11: 152.163.252.38
12: 24.166.138.7
13: 152.163.252.6
14: 64.68.82.136
15: 152.163.253.33
16: 152.163.253.3

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Those do appear to be search engines or spiders. If you don't want them, just add this line to your .htaccess

Deny from 152.163

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:03 pm

I don't have a .htaccess file. Was I supposed to make one?

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:06 pm

If you don't have one, create one and place it in your public_html folder.

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:11 pm

any default file security assignments?

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:14 pm

It should default to 644, but if it doesn't then just change it to 644.