Hi Theodoros:

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Theodoros Theodoropoulos wrote:
> Probably, this is also a way to deny access to crawlers that don't
> respect robots.txt :)

On CDS we have seen some malicious bots to fake user agent to look like
regular MSIE browser, so sometimes we resort to blocking them via
iptables, like:

# iptables -I INPUT -p TCP -i eth0 -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP

Best regards
-- 
Tibor Simko

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