Spiders All over my site.

[MikeCoutermarsh]

The most users that have ever been on my small community is 11. Last night I noticed a 3 users with almost Identical IP's on the boards, and now there are 19 of them on my site, all almost identical IPs.

EX:
IP: xx.xxx.xx.68
IP: xx.xxx.xx.72
IP: xx.xxx.xx.87
(Didnt want to post the whole IP addresse, not sure If thats allowed.)


Only thing I can think of is that there a bunch of spiders, but Im not sure. Do I block them using apache? Im confused as to what to do.


-Mike
www.revo7.com

[Scott MacVicar]

if its a bot feel free to post the whole IP as that will help us tell you what bot it is.

[MikeCoutermarsh]

also, the site got linked by another large one yesterday, traffic has jumped up, but since the IPs are nearly the same im wondering.

[MikeCoutermarsh]

66.196.72.42

Theres one of them, they are all the same except for the last two numbers.

[Scott MacVicar]

Resolved 66.196.72.42 to j3132.inktomisearch.com

Check out http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45828 it explains how to use robots.txt to stop your forums being spidered.

[MikeCoutermarsh]

Thank you!