Re: [cobalt-users] Banning an IP from access

[craig <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a customers site and they are using a huge amount of bandwidth.
>
> It seems that someone with the IP address, 24.44.135.89 is using a fetch API
> to pull the site somewhere, and using 94% of 1.2GB of bandwidth in 2 days!!
>
> How can i stop access to this site from the IP or if this isnt possible ban
> the IP from even accessing the server?
>

Hi do you have ipchains on that box
if so
   /sbin/ipchains -I input -s 24.44.135.89 -j DENY -l

If not and its httpd access then palce a .htaccess file
in the /home/sites/sitex/web
where sitex is site number eg site20
with

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName blocked
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 24.44.135.89
</Limit>

Howver if this is a raq4 and you do not have forntpage on that site you
will probaly get and error when you look at
tail -f /var/log/httpd/error saying .htaccess not allowed

so you edit the
/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf
add this at the bottom

<Directory /home/sites/sitex>
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>



and then
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart