Boing Boing: HOWTO keep Smartfilter's bots from seeing your site

Saturday, May 6, 2006

DirectoryIndex dbb.php
order allow,deny
deny from 66.45.10.64/27
deny from 206.169.110.64/27
deny from 192.55.214.0/24 
allow from all

Link (Thanks, Joao!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:15:38 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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