Hosted by ecatel as ip address???

[final kaoss]

who is this "hosted by ecatel"?

I think I've found the ip range for it
http://www.robtex.com/dns/hosted-by....net.html#whois

Does anyone else have any info about how to block ecatel?

89.248.160.146
89.248.160.151
89.248.160.152
89.248.160.153
89.248.160.154
89.248.160.155
89.248.160.156
89.248.160.157
89.248.160.158
89.248.160.159
89.248.160.160
89.248.160.161
89.248.160.162
89.248.160.171
89.248.160.186
89.248.160.195
89.248.160.196
89.248.160.198
89.248.160.208
89.248.162.146
89.248.162.147
89.248.162.162
89.248.162.163
89.248.162.164
89.248.162.197
89.248.162.208
89.248.162.234
89.248.168.120
89.248.168.14
89.248.168.15
89.248.168.16
89.248.168.17
89.248.168.22
89.248.168.24
89.248.168.26
89.248.168.30
89.248.168.34
89.248.168.35
89.248.168.36
89.248.168.37
89.248.168.39
89.248.168.40
89.248.168.41
89.248.168.42
89.248.168.43
89.248.168.44
89.248.168.45
89.248.168.55
89.248.168.56
89.248.168.57
89.248.168.59
89.248.168.60
89.248.168.61
89.248.168.62
89.248.168.63
89.248.168.64
89.248.168.65
89.248.168.66
89.248.168.67
89.248.168.68
89.248.168.69
89.248.168.70
89.248.168.71
89.248.168.72
89.248.168.73
89.248.168.78
89.248.168.93
89.248.168.94

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The "hosted by" text is just part of the user agent of the browser used by this guest.

You can block his IP(ranges) if you want.

But it looks like a spider of some sort. I would try to find what kind of spider it is (could be ecatel related) and limit the number in a robots.txt file.

[final kaoss]

He came back to visit my site today. Here's another support thread that I've asked about this
http://forums.hostgator.com/can-limi...tml#post208958

and one of the recent suggestions was

Like I said, block the entire IP range. The IP Deny Manager on cPanel makes it easy to do. It's pretty clearly at least:

89.248.160.*
89.248.162.*
89.248.168.*

I'll wager there are more, like 161, 163, etc., so just keep an eye on it and see if those ranges appear, as well. I'm guessing you'll end up blocking 89.248.160 through 168, at a minimum, but only time will tell if that's necessary.

Which I did but he found a way to come back recently.