Looks like it's Alibaba. I guess that's alright to block.Just google the IP or look it up on something like whois. It should tell you where it's from and if it's an indexing bot.
Yeah, I'm going to try that with the Alibaba IP's.Not sure if helpful but about 5 months ago my site started having that exact error. The logs showed that 90% of the traffic was coming from a single ip address. I had that ip address blocked and the server load dropped back to normal. Not saying that is going to be the solution here but if a large percentage of traffic is coming from one ip address, block that one does work. I should note that the ip address was blocked in the hosting control panel not phpBB.
Oh, interesting! There is a lot of mention in the access logs of Claudebot. So I'll try blocking that in my htaccess as well.could be this viewtopic.php?t=2652265
go to whos online and view guests
If any of this works, I'll let you know.
*Edit: How fast should this work? I've tried both solutions (blocking the IP's in my hosting control panel, and adding the bad bots blocking code to my .htaccess), and about fifteen minutes later I could access my forum again (because the queries per hour had been reset, probably). I just had time to purge the cache, but then ten minutes later, the error was back again. Does that mean it failed? Or should I give it some time?
I read something about restarting Apache in order for the htaccess code to take effect. But how do I do that? Is that even possible on shared hosting?
Statistics: Posted by rommeltje — Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:55 pm