NukeSentinel(tm): Protected Ranges

nooblet · Regular Joined: Sep 09, 2005 Posts: 88

Raven, i have noticed that the ip of whois.sc (64.246.160.0 - 64.246.191.255) always got banned (Reason: Abuse-Referer) on my sites that use your distro. So that when i looked at

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my Website Title: "www.MyDomain.com: You have been blocked " bcoz of that i have added there ip to the NukeSentinel Protected Range.. I hope you will add them also on the protected range in your next release Very Happy

Raven · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:59 am

Or, just remove them from the referer list?

nooblet · Regular Joined: Sep 09, 2005 Posts: 88

sorry i didnt notice that it is on the the blocked referer list.. lol
anyway why is it on the blocked referer list? Question

organizedhome · New Member Joined: Nov 16, 2005 Posts: 4

I was just going to ask the same thing .... is there a reason that they should be blocked?

Raven · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:50 am

The main reason is that they basically dig up evey piece of information about your site and domain registrations and make it available to the public and other harvesters. Not that the information can't be gotten other ways, but they make it too convenient and so they are on the bad bot lists.

organizedhome · New Member Joined: Nov 16, 2005 Posts: 4

Thanks, Raven--I believe I'll leave that listing blocked. That was what I wanted to know.

nooblet · Regular Joined: Sep 09, 2005 Posts: 88

thanks for that great info raven.. ill leave them to the blocked referer list also.. Very Happy