whassup, avantgo?
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Like Steven, we’ve been getting seriously thrashed by a spider/bot thingy that seems to be from AvantGo. We’ve had thousands of hits today from this stupid thing; it’s wasting our bandwidth and clogging up our server logs by reloading the weblog page over and over. I finally got fed up enough to figure out how to block the IPs used by the bot, with an htaccess file that looks like this:
order allow,deny
deny from 64.157.224.
allow from all
This blocks access from any IP that starts with 64.157.224. – the addresses used by the AvantGo critter.