Tasapspider/0.9
Just found this “bot” going crazy on a site that is on a dedicated server, took the entire server offline. This bot looks to be new and from China, so be on the lookout.
Other reports are saying it is ignoring the robots.txt file, so might not be good enough to deny it there.
It was coming from 218.28.29.236
Here are more details about that IP, and what ranges you might want to block.
http://whois.domaintools.com/218.28.29.236
I placed the following in my .htaccess file
order allow,deny
deny from 218.28.
deny from 218.29.
allow from all
Please post a comment if you this bot has hit your site.
This spider took down a clients site twice for me now. About to start blocking it. It is indeed a chinese search engine at http://www.tasap.com/
Just had a run-in with this bot and had it knock my SQL server over temporarily. Time to say good by at the firewall.
Yes, this bot is brutal, even blocking with .htaccess is sometimes not enough as it still can hit the server.