ShinmaRyuu Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 I keep getting the following error page on the forums for the past 2 days. Running Windows XP with Latest Firefox in case you need that. Here is a cap of the page. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/3986128...cda63932c_o.jpg Anyone else getting this? Quote
Sparda Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 mmmm... ye, the forums have also been slow recently, it seemed to start when the IRC debate started, so I'm guessing (assuming nothing malicious happened) that peopel moved from IRC to the forums to find out wtf was going on. Quote
Bullfrog838 Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 i just got that same error from 5 other post before this one finaly let me in Quote
VaKo Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 Something is wrong, however I am at the office right now and I'm having to argue with a sys-admin in pigeon German about exactly how you need to configure vzzp nameservers on the fracking node. I think its either google bot, our friends at level 3 again or the database needs another kick... Quote
Chalito Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 everything seems to be running smoothly. I haven't encountered any error as of yet. Seems like someone fixed the issue or it just fixed itself. Quote
wetelectric Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 mmm yea had the same thing a while ago... probs just a net gremlin Quote
VaKo Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 We get a lot of google bot traffic and it seems to swamp the forums while its doing its stuff. Does anyone know of a way of creating a robots.txt that will tell the spiders to take it easy? Quote
wetelectric Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I'd be really surprised if it due to a bot... more than likely a problem with your host. php sends a write db request... odbc b0rks for some reason... php tries to request data that does not exist, therefore generates a page that does not exist... 404..... Quote
VaKo Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 I doubt that, mainly due to the amount of Google or Level 3 IP's being tracked by phpbb during the timeout sessions. I should probally have a look at the apache logs tonight. Quote
Garda Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 put the following 2 lines in a file at http://hak5.org/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /forums/ that should fix any problems with googlebot or any other bots messing with the forums Quote
digip Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 put the following 2 lines in a file at http://hak5.org/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /forums/ that should fix any problems with googlebot or any other bots messing with the forums have you ever tried that with Slurp (yahoo). Slurp never follows the rules...bad yahoo...bad... It can be done using the .htaccess file for bots that don't follow the robots rule. Example: SetEnvIfNoCase user-agent "Zibber" bad_bot=1 <FilesMatch "(.*)"> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=bad_bot </FilesMatch> I use this for about, oh, 30-40 bots that I block. A lot of bots don't follow the robots.txt rules and are only interested in harvesting emails and php pages that use things to post messages, like Guest Books and BB's. Quote
ShinmaRyuu Posted February 26, 2007 Author Posted February 26, 2007 Could yahoo possibly do anything else to be more annoying. Between buying companies and f'n them up all the way down to things like this. It's no wonder google kicks there butt all the time. Quote
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