208.66.195.x - Check Your Traffic Logs
This thing is a BEAST and gobbling up bandwidth like you wouldn’t believe. More info:
Research on ARIN reveals that this web bot is owned by a company called Digital Infinity Ltd located in Moscow, Russia. The mailing address is listed as: Ostrovityanova str, 14, 200, Moscow, Russia.
IP number ranges from 208.66.195.0 to 208.66.195.28
A friend’s bandwidth was chewed up in two weeks, my directories are being eaten alive and it’s sniffing around SuperAff. How to see if you’re on its lunch menu?
Simplest Method:
Look in AWSTATS
Click Hosts
View the IPs
One directory of mine has a half gig of bandwidth chewed up just by this bot in the first two weeks of August.
Block that bad boy in .htaccess:
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 208.66.195.0/28
</Limit>
Thanks to DonSausa.com for the info.
Scott Johnson:
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:47 pm
This beast just hit my radar today. Blocks are in progress.