Yahoo Bot

[]SK[]

Ive just noticed my most ever users online is now 125, thats a 100 increase over night. My board isnt that popular yet so doubted it.

Ive just gone though the access logs of Apache and found a load of these.

66.196.90.224 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:00 +0100] "GET /forums/archive/index.php/t-26.html HTTP/1.0" 200 12456 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
66.196.90.157 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:02 +0100] "GET /forums/archive/index.php/t-237.html HTTP/1.0" 200 4127 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
66.196.90.107 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:02 +0100] "GET /forums/archive/index.php/t-298.html HTTP/1.0" 200 6606 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
66.196.90.160 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:03 +0100] "GET /forums/archive/index.php/t-121.html HTTP/1.0" 200 5630 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
66.196.90.71 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:04 +0100] "GET /forums/archive/index.php/t-31.html HTTP/1.0" 200 2877 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
66.196.90.169 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:05 +0100] "GET /forums/archive/index.php/t-208.html HTTP/1.0" 200 3375 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
66.196.90.179 - - [06/May/2004:01:37:06 +0100] "GET /forums/showthread.php?t=23 HTTP/1.0" 200 8012 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"

I dont mind it searching the site, which is actually a good plus but is there any way to stop the number of online users increasing like this?

[]SK[]

Anyone else had this problem?

[Steve Machol]

Not counting bots in the online user totals requires modifying the code. You can try asking over at vbulletin.org.

[Glen C]

any way to limit their connections... like allowing only 10 at once?

they're killing my server load

[Steve Machol]

Not from within vB, no.