how is bbb blocking

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    Not sure what you mean.. when a bot disobeys the robots.txt directive and visits the blackhole link, its IP address is recorded and added to the “no access” list (i.e., the blackhole). Any future visits/requests from that IP will be blocked.

    I am also interested in how exactly the blocking works.
    e.g. it would be good to know if it is possible to:
    * let the block happen via .htaccess rules
    * add the blocked ip address to some text file so that linux firewall based tools like fail2ban can take up the ip and use it.
    Thanks!

    Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    The actual mechanism is a bit involved, more so than I can explain here.. but you are welcome to take a look through the source code and check it out. I’ve added a bunch of hooks to help users extend functionality, and am always glad to add more as needed.

    does this work on windows based servers? none of the other “auto block” plugins are able to write to my .htaccess file so I have to do it manually..

    Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    Blackhole for Bad Bots does not require any .htaccess or similar. It is simply a WordPress plugin that works on any server that can run WordPress.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Jeff Starr.
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