Hello Howard,

I am not sure that blocking msnbot from your wiki would accomplish much. You should also block robots in /robots.txt, not in your LocalSettings.php file. If you want to protect against DDoS, you can not do it at a wiki level. You will need to buy special equipment that detects it on a lower level. (Some links: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns615/networking_solutions_sub_solution.ht... and http://www.juniper.net/solutions/service_provider/network_security/ ). If you want to protect against malicious bots, you will have to use something such as captchas to separate the humans from the bots.

I hope that this helps, Kasimir Gabert

On 1/2/07, Jim Hu jimhu@tamu.edu wrote:

This may be a bit extreme, but I added this to my LocalSettings.php

$agent= " " . $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; if ( strpos($agent,"msnbot") ) { exit; }

found the snippet via Googling.

Jim Hu

On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:31 PM, howard chen wrote:

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Hello,

Can share something abt in these area?

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