Author: C.Dijkgraaf (13 Mar 05 8:33pm)
That depends on whether they are always coming from that IP address, and whether there are other users at that IP address that you don't want to block.
The IP belongs to
OrgName: WebHostPlus Inc
OrgID: WEBHO-3
Address: 100 Plaza drive
City: Secaucus
StateProv: NJ
PostalCode: 07094
Country: US
I've currently got my guestbook page doing a 301 Redirect to the honeypot page if the user agent matches a regular expression list of harvester bots.
Other users (based on their IP or domain name) I'm just serving up an empty page (Nigerian 419 scammers and a harvester IP with a random user-agent just in case isn't caught by the first rule).
Both of these are being done in the PHP page, but I could also do some of that using mod-rewrites in the .httaccess file.
You always have to be carefull about how and who you block, as you may be blocking inoccents as well. Of course if you'd rather block them as well as the harvesters then go ahead. It would depend on what type of web server your site is on that would determine how you would block them.
I also render e-mails unreadable to most bots, some good examples on this site, so try those as well.
Colin
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