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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Mon, 16 May 2005 06:57:31 +0000

TedFox, it’s sufficient to change the $wp_bb_log variable at the top of bad-behavior-database.php, but it’s not necessary; several copies of Bad Behavior can log to the same table without problem. You can separate entries for each subdomain by querying on the http_host field.

By: TedFox

TedFox — Mon, 16 May 2005 06:48:55 +0000

If i have two copies of bad behavior running on 2 subdomains, but same SQL database, what do I need to change for the logging to different tables. I tried changing the variable at the top of database.php, but that does not seem to be enough.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 05 May 2005 03:22:05 +0000

Carsten and MacManX: After researching this issue further, I've come to the preliminary conclusion that you might be looking at a spambot, rather than Googlebot. I've learned two things in the past couple of days which mean I have to postpone my plans to whitelist Googlebot and Google's IP netblock. First, it is possible to use Google's Language Tools as a proxy in order to scrape sites for links and email addresses. This isn't very well known, but there are apparently spammers doing this already. Second, Google is running a proxy server in conjunction with their new Web Accelerator service. Finally, I've received no response whatsoever, not even an automated response, from the email I sent to Google. I'm going to continue to watch this carefully. If you continue to see hits from Google's IP netblock which are actually blocked by Bad Behavior, please send them to me and CC: abuse@google.com.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Tue, 03 May 2005 12:10:29 +0000

Yeah, thanks

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 03 May 2005 06:18:31 +0000

MacManX, I received your log entries. This is completely new behavior on the part of Googlebot which doesn’t match its previous behavior. In fact, it hardly looks like Googlebot at all! My guess is Google rolled out a change to Googlebot or is doing some kind of experimentation. You should also be seeing many, many hits from Googlebot which are not getting blocked, as well.

The “normal” Googlebot contains an Accept: header, whose contents can vary, and a header From: googlebot(at)googlebot.com. I hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to send a copy of the headers from this weird incarnation of Googlebot to them so they can research it.

From my end I’ll have a point release out shortly which whitelists Googlebot when it comes from Google’s registered IP netblock.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Tue, 03 May 2005 03:11:32 +0000

Thanks for the great plugin – Since install, Spam Karma 2 has not had to send a single comment to hell. The only thing I noticed was since I installed 1.0, GoogleBot is being blocked?

From the log:
66.249.65.130
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: Keep-alive
Host: http://www.subaquasternalrubs.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

IP checks out as belonging to Google…

By: MacManX

MacManX — Tue, 03 May 2005 01:31:58 +0000

Thanks for the quick response! ^_^