.htaccess issue

[NickPapageorgio]

Ok I know I get fuskered on some old galleries. I have hotlink protection setup so when they try to view an image, they are redirected to my site. I have probably had 100,000 visitors from just that this year but it's worthless traffic. Freeloaders from foreign countries it looks like to me. Out of all that "free" traffic I never got a single sign up. Ok, in my stats area, I see this IP daily: 69.42.85.221 and it says that IP has accessed my site, but not visited my site. Is that probably the Fusker IP? The reason I ask is that I want to just block them alltogether. They are burning my bandwidth and not helping the cause. Is that a robot or something they send out to crawl for pics? How can I determine what IP address is in direct relation to www.fusker.lewww.com?

[NickPapageorgio]

On that note, would it be better to send them to a dialer or something shitty?

[JizBiz]

Originally posted by NickPapageorgio@May 4 2005, 07:24 AM
On that note, would it be better to send them to a dialer or something shitty?

Hosted at webair?

The ip belongs to them

OrgName: Webair Internet Development Inc

[JizBiz]

Oh and how to determine where an ip comes from...or many other things

www.dnsstuff.com

[NickPapageorgio]

Thanks JizBiz and yeah it's hosted at webair. I will use that site to figure out their IP though. Do sites like that usually mask their IP's somehow? I don't want to block out or redirect the wrong people.

[JizBiz]

Originally posted by NickPapageorgio@May 4 2005, 07:32 AM
Thanks JizBiz and yeah it's hosted at webair. I will use that site to figure out their IP though. Do sites like that usually mask their IP's somehow? I don't want to block out or redirect the wrong people.

The ip is your sites IP.

Atleast the domain that is hosted on that site has this as a contact on the whois.

nickpapageorgio|@|almostlucky.com


SO i would assume you are the culprit!!

[NickPapageorgio]

Originally posted by JizBiz+May 4 2005, 04:36 AM-->