#1971 lists: block agreessive crawler
Merged 13 days ago by kevin. Opened 13 days ago by kevin.
fedora-infra/ kevin/ansible drop-bad-crawler  into  main

@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ 

  Disallow: /accounts/

  Disallow: /django-admin/

  Disallow: /archives/*/vote$

+ User-agent: Bytespider

+ Disallow: /

This crawler is doing about 2M requests a day to
lists.fedoraproject.org. This is causing db load on db01, causing
services to have issues.

So, block them here for now, but we may want to block them elsewhere
too.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com

Metadata Update from @kevin:
- Pull-request tagged with: freeze-break-request

13 days ago

I'm just gonna push this since the db load is causing actual problems.

Pull-Request has been merged by kevin

13 days ago