The Arcive of vBulletin Modifications Site.

joeboo · #1 07-05-2003, 04:27 PM

The weirdest thing happened to me yesterday, i had about 5 members online, and over 40 guests online. I was quite happy at first.. but then, through out the day, the guest count would go up a bit, and decrease a bit, but it would always stay in this range: 39-50. I get up this morning, and the same thing.

I know its probably some trick or something, because all of the IP's of the guests are incredibly similar, the only difference is the last 2 numbers of the IP. And i check what they are doing, and they're doing things only members can do. O.o What can I do? Its quite annoying now, since i know they're like duped guests.

Brad · #2 07-05-2003, 04:34 PM

Probbly google-bot or the like indexing your site.

assassingod · #3 07-05-2003, 04:36 PM

They are probably bots. IPs are probably like 'crawl.google34' or 'bot.inktomi23'

There is a mod released here by Anthony to stop bots (Also, a few hacks have been released aswell)

Rufus69 · #4 07-05-2003, 04:48 PM

I like them, they let you site get more hits.

Brad · #5 07-05-2003, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ffdcsite

They are probably bots. IPs are probably like 'crawl.google34' or 'bot.inktomi23'

There is a mod released here by Anthony to stop bots (Also, a few hacks have been released aswell)

Why would you want to stop bots from indexing your site?

joeboo · #6 07-05-2003, 04:59 PM

ok, i installed like 3 hacks, filburt's googlebot hack, anthony's hack, and another one that finds the number of bots there are, and it says "0". Any other suggestions? lol

Brad · #7 07-05-2003, 05:47 PM

What is the hostname from the similar guests?

joeboo · #8 07-05-2003, 06:05 PM

how do i figure out the hostname of a guest IP?

Tony G · #9 07-05-2003, 11:46 PM

Who's Online should display the hostname, sometimes it does IP..

Rufus69 · #10 07-05-2003, 11:55 PM

You have to change the option in the acp, to resolve ips.