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Anti-leech IP blocking
Hello,

I have a busy site that once in a while is accessed by users that want
to leech its content. That would not be a problem if that would not
cause the site to spend so much CPU resources to serve that content.

The only solution that I have for that is to block the IP address of the
leeching computers. That is not very efficient because my ISP warns me
before I can do anything.

I was wondering if is there any module or some other automatic way to
avoid this problem.

Thanks in advance,
Manuel Lemos

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Re: Anti-leech IP blocking [ In reply to ]
Hi Manuel,

Check the references at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Apache-Overview-HOWTO-5.html



On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:28:10PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a busy site that once in a while is accessed by users that want
> to leech its content. That would not be a problem if that would not
> cause the site to spend so much CPU resources to serve that content.
>
> The only solution that I have for that is to block the IP address of the
> leeching computers. That is not very efficient because my ISP warns me
> before I can do anything.
>
> I was wondering if is there any module or some other automatic way to
> avoid this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Manuel Lemos
>
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