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[2.x] Sudden surge in "unknown" traffic from BLP_b

1 Jul 06, 2009 17:01    

My b2evolution Version: 2.x

Over the past week or so, all our blogs on the b2evo system have shown a large spike in traffic from "unknown" sources, specifically listed as "BLP_bbot/0.1" in the traffic log.

A few quick Google searches have uncovered basically no information on this. Does anyone have any idea what this is or whether it should be a concern? Everything seems to be running normally and I haven't noticed any problems or other anomalies with the blogs, but this traffic spike is significant. It's doubling (or more) the traffic the blogs normally get.

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2 Jul 06, 2009 17:46

if it's not in Google it doesn't exist :)

But if you're concerned this bot is consuming too much of your hard-earned bandwidth, first option is to block it via your /robots.txt:

User-agent: BLP_bbot/1.0
Disallow: /

OF course, if this is a truly bad-behaved bot, then it will ignore robots.txt. After that, you can try another solution.

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3 Jul 06, 2009 17:49

So far it's not enough to worry about, but figured someone here might have some details about it and whether it was worth blocking. Thanks for the info!

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4 Jul 06, 2009 19:00

You could also try to use "BLP_bbot" without the version number in your robots.txt.

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