You could modify the AR script to do some kind of lookup to see
whether the IP should be banned or not.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> I;ve been looking for a way to add domains to the whitelist to prevent
> active-response. I can see similar questions have been asked but I can
> not find any with an answer.
>
> The issue is active-response taking action against a web crawler
> (Google, etc) if they attempt to crawl many pages that no longer
> exist. Most search engines do not publish an IP range/block and
> require a host lookup.
>
> As I understand it the whitelist can take a set of IP addresses or an
> IP block, can it take a domain name e.g. googlebot.com
>
> If not has anyone successfully and safely found a way to use active-
> response without it resulting in blocking search engines?
>
> Steve

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