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   PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
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   BBSID: RICKSBBS   
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   I am working on my robot.txt file and also was reading the wiki on ip   
   filtering. I prefer silent filtering and I was wondering what the /24 or /30   
   means at the end of the filter rule if you want to block a 'range' of ip   
   numbers. I am coming at this from an older dial up mentality so most of this is   
   new to me. I was hit with googlebot indexing 'everything' on my BBS yesterday,   
   literally downloading 2000 files for a long period before I realized what was   
   happening. It just made it run a little slower but I logged in at lunch and   
   noticed in the statistics that a 10 gigabytes of files had been transferred.   
   That is normally a month's worth on here. LOL. I have since blocked the 4   
   addresses that seemed to be staying logged in as 'guest' I have also made it   
   impossible for 'guest's to download anything. Then googlebot started indexing   
   the fidonet messages and other message boards. So started researching and   
   blocking anything showing as 'googlebot' in the name resolutions. What do the   
   /24 or /30 suffixes do? I hope everything is starting off the New Year great!   
   Thank you,   
   Rixter   
      
   telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23   
   http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080   
   Madison,NC   
      
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