Subj : Web server and BOT's
To   : All
From : Richard Vonzel
Date : Wed Jun 25 2025 04:25:24

Hello All.

I turned on the Synchronet Web server, works great, hsad my website running. Had my BBS's files available for access thru it. Yesterday I guess a BOT got on my site and jst downloaded all the file I had available. Here's the log entry for this,

  6/24  05:36:27p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] Request 1825: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_ads&thread=105 HTTP/1.1
  6/24  05:36:27p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
  6/24  05:36:28p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] Request 1826: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=177 HTTP/1.1
  6/24  05:36:28p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
  6/24  05:36:29p  3008 HTTP  [20.171.207.62] Request 1827: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=801 HTTP/1.1

Is there a way to stop someone from using a BOT to take the files besides turning off the server?


RickV

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