<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">Hi, </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">I’m hoping for some advice on keeping away unwanted connections to the server. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">I have streams on two mount points that are receiving connections from a number of users that have an ‘unknown’ user agent. Sometimes I get these types of connections on both mount points simultaneously from the same IP which leads me to believe that they’re not legitimate listeners - perhaps a bot, ripper, or metadata leech. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">I already have a script that kicks any user that connects to both mount points simultaneously from the same IP address. However, I’d like to know I if it might help if I added the following lines in a robots.txt file?</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">User-Agent: *</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">Allow: /</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">User-agent: unknown</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">Disallow: /</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">I don’t currently have a robots.txt set up. If this won’t help, can anyone suggest a better way to prevent such connections?</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; min-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">Thanks</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 16px;">Damian</span></p><div dir="ltr"></div></body></html>