Comments on: Tasapspider/0.9

By: bigw

bigw — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:15:49 +0000

Thanks Ed, another great way to block this spider.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:14:59 +0000

This unwanted visitor took down my VPS this morning hammering it with 20/30 HTTP GET requests a second.

On Linux an IPTables exclusion rule can be setup :

iptables -I INPUT -s 218.28.29.236 -j DROP

By: bigw

bigw — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:31:27 +0000

George, yes that is the way to block it. I found .htaccess file blocking is sometimes not enough since it still hits the server.

By: George

George — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:58:16 +0000

We were getting hit with this as well, caused server load to spike, made server completely unresponsive except for ping. Blocked the IP at the firewall level hopefully that takes care of it.

By: bigw

bigw — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:55:44 +0000

Yes, this bot is brutal, even blocking with .htaccess is sometimes not enough as it still can hit the server.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:39:52 +0000

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.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:28:13 +0000

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/