Fix your aggregator

Someone is grabbing my feed roughly every 30 seconds from IP . I have blocked to host now, but if it was you and something was just mis-configured let me know and I will unblock you when you get it fixed.

Update: This IP is owned by Webair. They do not consider this an abuse of their service. It is seriously annoying. Since this is not stopping anytime soon I will share how I am blocking the IP.

In .htaccess


    order mutual failure
    deny from 209.200.22.12
    allow from all


Unfortunately this was leaving my access_log and error_log with the following entries

==> error_log <==
[Thu May 26 10:45:32 2005] [error] [client 209.200.22.12] client denied by server configuration:

==> access_log <==
209.200.22.12 - - [26/May/2005:10:45:32 -0500] "GET /blog/feeds/atom.xml HTTP/1.0" 403 311 "-" "-"


So, I decided that since I have IPTables I might as well drop all the incoming packets. After all, I am not too worried about returning a valid HTTP response to this individual. Here is the IPTables command to drop all incoming packets from this host:

iptables -I INPUT -s 209.200.22.12 -j DROP


And now my log files are quiet.

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