UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Question on barkrowler and the like

I see the barkrowler bot trying to login over and over. I know there are other bad robots. Is there a way to stop this like black list etc..

Been so long I am not sure if that was added or not. I know anti spam can be implemented but that is not an issue for now.

Most of these bots are simply hitting the login page, they're not actually trying to brute force their way in, they're simply following all of the links on your forums.

As for blocking bots there are several options, using CloudFlare or modifying your .htaccess file can directly ban them (on CF you have to look at your firewall rules), a simple kludge for your .htaccess would be something like what ip2location offers for their Firewall List (which blocks bad IPs/countries)

Some people will say a robots.txt file but it's more of a suggestion versus an actual ban (unlike the .htaccess line)

Thanks bud. I wasnt sure if it was in the software and I was missing it. Thanks for the suggestions. I run iis10 so I will look at what I can do there

See ya Giz

Ahh yeah I'm not really well versed with IIS, I'm sure one of the firewall rules on ip2location can be used but not entirely sure which or how...