Anyone here work for roche.com?

Might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone on here work for roche.com?
The reason I ask is that what looks like a badly configured web bot at
agni.nut.roche.com is hammering the Maldives trip reports on my website
every 10 minutes or less and has been all month.

And as you can imagine it's sending my bandwidth usage through the roof
and I have to pay for it.

Jason

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In article <pan.2003.09.15.09.35.52.772619@ntlworld.com>,
jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com says...
> Might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone on here work for roche.com?
> The reason I ask is that what looks like a badly configured web bot at
> agni.nut.roche.com is hammering the Maldives trip reports on my website
> every 10 minutes or less and has been all month.
>
> And as you can imagine it's sending my bandwidth usage through the roof
> and I have to pay for it.
>
> Jason
>
>
Suggest you rename the page and monitor.

Dave
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"Jason" <jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.09.15.09.35.52.772619@ntlworld.com.. .
> Might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone on here work for roche.com?
> The reason I ask is that what looks like a badly configured web bot at
> agni.nut.roche.com is hammering the Maldives trip reports on my website
> every 10 minutes or less and has been all month.
>
> And as you can imagine it's sending my bandwidth usage through the roof
> and I have to pay for it.
>
add it to robots.txt and see it no more

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:14:01 +0100, beanie wrote:

>> And as you can imagine it's sending my bandwidth usage through the roof
>> and I have to pay for it.
>>
> add it to robots.txt and see it no more

I can't filter it on the IP address though, can I? I don't really want to
block Google and I certainly don't want to move it.

Jason

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http://www.scuba-addict.co.uk/ for the UK viz database and trip reports
about Australia, the Caribbean, Spain, the Maldives, Bali and the UK

In article <Chg9b.2518$eK3.362@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
beanie <nospam@diving.ukdiver.com> wrote:
>
>"Jason" <jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>newsan.2003.09.15.09.35.52.772619@ntlworld.com. ..
>> Might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone on here work for roche.com?
>> The reason I ask is that what looks like a badly configured web bot at
>> agni.nut.roche.com is hammering the Maldives trip reports on my website
>> every 10 minutes or less and has been all month.
>>
>> And as you can imagine it's sending my bandwidth usage through the roof
>> and I have to pay for it.
>>
>add it to robots.txt and see it no more

They don't all obey that... I've firewalled our some robots because
of this.

Gordon

"Jason" <jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.09.15.10.05.48.595291@ntlworld.com

> Plus it doesn't seem to check robots.txt anyway or I'd see a request for
> that too.

Have you tried emailing someone there?

I was getting hammered by Henry until I got drunk & sent them a really
sweary email...

What http server are you using? Apache can deny access on a per-IP
basis.

Vic.


[1] Despite what their web page says, at the time they were ignoring
robots.txt.




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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:59:31 +0000, Vic wrote:

> Have you tried emailing someone there?

Yes, but you know how successful emails to postmasters are.

> I was getting hammered by Henry until I got drunk & sent them a really
> sweary email...
>
> What http server are you using? Apache can deny access on a per-IP
> basis.

Just found something to do this. So I should now get a nice big error log
rather than access log.

Jason

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the wrecks of the SS Yongala, Lady Bowen and the HMAS Swan

"Jason" <jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.09.15.09.35.52.772619@ntlworld.com> ...
> Might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone on here work for roche.com?
> The reason I ask is that what looks like a badly configured web bot at
> agni.nut.roche.com is hammering the Maldives trip reports on my website
> every 10 minutes or less and has been all month.
>
> And as you can imagine it's sending my bandwidth usage through the roof
> and I have to pay for it.
>
Seems to be a one-man job.

Registration Service Provided By: F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Contact: yves.goulnik@roche.com

Domain name- roche.com

Name servers-
NS1.ROCHE.COM
ATHENE.SYNTEX.COM
HLRNS1.ROCHE.COM
AENEAS.SYNTEX.COM

Creation date- 1992-04-17 00:00:00
Expiration date- 2008-04-18 00:00:00

Registrant Contact-
F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Yves Goulnik (yves.goulnik@roche.com)
+41.0041616881148
FAX- +41.0041616881524
Grenzacherstrasse
Basel, 4070
CH


Administrative Contact-
F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Yves Goulnik (yves.goulnik@roche.com)
+41.0041616881148
FAX- +41.0041616881524
Grenzacherstrasse
Basel, 4070
CH


Billing Contact-
F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Yves Goulnik (yves.goulnik@roche.com)
+41.0041616881148
FAX- +41.0041616881524
Grenzacherstrasse
Basel, 4070
CH


Technical Contact-
F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Global Hostmaster (global.hostmaster@roche.com)
+41.0041616873400
FAX- +41.0041616873757
Grenzacherstrasse
Basel, 4070
CH

"Alun Harford" <alunharford@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f890d8e3.0309150700.593270c3@posting.google.c om

> "Jason" <jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.09.15.09.35.52.772619@ntlworld.com> ...
> > Might be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone on here work for roche.com?

> Seems to be a one-man job.
>
> Registration Service Provided By: F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG
> Contact: yves.goulnik@roche.com
>

Alun,

I'm fairly certain it's Roche Pharmecuticals.

Now that Mailgate's letting me post again
they're based in Welwyn Garden city in the UK.

DaveA


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Alun Harford wrote:
> Seems to be a one-man job.
>
> Registration Service Provided By: F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG

You're bloody kidding right? Roche is a multi-national company, a
big multinational company, it employs 60,000 people in 150 different
countries! See www.roche.com for further details...

*shakes head in utter bemusement*

Al.