https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1002&p=7999#p7999
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Vortex
Wed 24 Jan, 2007 20:54

Re: How Ban Bots
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I did that with Yahoo bots and my site speeded up a lot ;)


First of all you will need to "study" a bit the bots that browse your site... usually they come from a limited range of IPs... like 2 or 3 classes. Take a day or two and take note of ips of all bots.


Than from ACP go to Users >>> Ban user and insert the IP ranges you want to ban.


Just to give an example, I banned the following ranges (all Yahoo's):


72.30.*.*

74.6.*.*




NOTE: surely I could ban those ips in a more accurately way, but since I have only italian users, I don't care if someone from California cannot register :D


