Just bear in mind that any other hook you choose will need to be sufficient to perform the other tasks of the mod if you wished like sending the email or creating the threads. Some of the other runtime hooks will give errors or not work as expected especially with the thread creation, also keep in mind you need to redirect them before anything has loaded as it's this that is the basis of the mod - keeping resources for your members and not the bots :)

No my Man, you actually are explaining yourself very well lol ...

All I know is that I have not had any negative effects from doing the blocks and I also have just a list of single IPs ..... and let me tell you , that list is long as hell lol ....

Thanks, but I'm still unsure what the benefit would be to redirect back to the source. Would it make them aware you don't want them sooner?

It really doesn't matter, they are redirected with a 301 which is a permanent redirect, so they will always see the url they tried to crawl as the one you send them to. Like i said, i coded that in to send them back to themselves so they have less resources to be crawling other peoples sites - it's only fair! :)

Would you share you CIDR list? Not in this thread, but maybe make a new thread?

Thanks, that is all I wanted to know. :)

Princesspepper could you mark this as installed please :)

You can get it here my Man : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...134.184.0%2F21

Hey Ozzy,

Are we any closer to an alternative or modification to this so that we can get better blocking in place?

I am willing to test on my site as I am still getting hit hard by spiders even with the mod in place.

D.

Hey Gadget Guy, no disrespect but the mod here is mine and isn't marked as reusable code, Ozzy may post what he's tried or done but wont necessarily be added to this mod, however Ozzy has developed one like this with other measures, you can get it at his site.

If you are being hit by spiders with this mod in place it will be because there is an anomaly in your list, this list isn't exhaustive but here's a few reasons why:
Entry in list has a leading or trailing space
Entry has a typo of some sort
Entry doesn't actually represent the bot you think it does (i.e Ahrefsbot I believe has a different name in the UA)
Mod run order may conflict with another mod using the same hook
There are other reasons but those should get you going! :)