Comments on: Calling out bad crawlers: the Kintiskton nuisance

By: Brinley Ang

Brinley Ang — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:38:24 +0000

It even parses urls in JavaScript code without correctly executing the code itself and ended up hitting my site with 404s.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:25:26 +0000

They were just crawling my site pretty heavily but I was watching in real time my site traffic, so they done a bit of crawling until I made an htaccess file with:

deny from 65.208.151.

And it stopped them within seconds

I chose to deny the the whole range (1-255) because no doubt they will use new ip’s soon enough but they should only change their server ip’s (meaning only that last number will change).

If anyone wants to stop them crawling, simply make a text file, and write in it:

deny from 65.208.151.

and save it. Then upload the txt file to your web hosting and rename it .htaccess and its done

You can’t rename your text file to .htaccess in windows you have to do it in your ftp when the file hits your web server because windows FORCES you to put something before a . in a file name. Linux/UNix web servers do not.

By: bob3160

bob3160 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:52:45 +0000

Just blocked them. Wondered what was making my server so busy.

By: canuck

canuck — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:25:53 +0000

Hi. They came on to my site and I received over 600 hits from them in approx half an hour. I was able to exempt my statcounter.com from logging their IP address, but that doesn’t mean they can no longer access my site.

I use blogger. Is there a place in my Template where I can insert info that would deny them even loading my page? I am computer not-too-smart and so if you can help in kid language, that would be ideal

Cheers & thanks.

By: Julian Perry

Julian Perry — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:10:56 +0000

I am getting very similar activity from cuil.com.
Direct hits from 216.129.119.16.
Google Adsense shows the hits as page impressions for one day then they’re gone the next.

By: Kintiskton « Mark Turner Dot Net

Kintiskton « Mark Turner Dot Net — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:45:22 +0000

[...] that made choose not to share my web content with Kintiskton. I first added the subnet to my .htaccess rules but decided to add it to my firewall rules. That took care of [...]

By: mrdeus

mrdeus — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:12:10 +0000

I blocked this bot today. It’s annoying because it loads images and everything. And does it all at once, like you said.

It’s shorter to use the CIDR notation for the .htaccess file:

Deny from 65.208.151.112/29

By: LGR

LGR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:11:00 +0000

I have the exact same problem. I just ban those IP’s by default now on every site I work on. I guess that is all we can do to stop them. Thanks Verizon Business for being a nuisance.