From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>, 52338@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52338: Crawler bots are downloading substitutes
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:21:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1ak2m1p.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ya5+t3YAVCs0KlCN@jasmine.lan>
Hi Leo,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> I noticed that some bots are downloading substitutes from
> ci.guix.gnu.org.
>
> We should add a robots.txt file to reduce this waste.
>
> Specifically, I see bots from Bing and Semrush:
>
> https://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm
> https://www.semrush.com/bot.html
For what it's worth: during the years that I administered Hydra, I found
that many bots disregarded the robots.txt file that was in place there.
In practice, I found that I needed to periodically scan the access logs
for bots and forcefully block their requests in order to keep Hydra from
becoming overloaded with expensive queries from bots.
Regards,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-10 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-06 21:20 bug#52338: Crawler bots are downloading substitutes Leo Famulari
2021-12-06 22:18 ` bug#52338: [maintenance] hydra: berlin: Create robots.txt Leo Famulari
2021-12-09 13:27 ` bug#52338: Crawler bots are downloading substitutes Mathieu Othacehe
2021-12-09 15:42 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-10 16:22 ` Leo Famulari
2021-12-10 16:47 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-11 9:46 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-12-19 16:53 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-12-10 21:21 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-12-10 22:52 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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