Twiceler

Seeing this bot quite often lately. The full user-agent string is: Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html).

The page it mentions in the user-agent string says just:

"Twiceler is an experimental robot. Please contact costello@cuill.com if you have any problems.
Twiceler should obey robots.txt."

This bot uses the following IP addresses:
38.99.13.121
38.99.13.122
38.99.13.123
38.99.13.124
38.99.44.101
38.99.44.102
38.99.44.103
38.99.44.104

Twiceler does not obey robots txt to ban it. To eliminate it from leeching bandwidth enter this code in the .htaccess file

order allow,deny
deny from 38.99
allow from all

see here http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_block.html

It uses a large number IP address all from 38.99

This robot leeched nearly 2gb of nabdwidth on one site I run in days and has been running rife on others until it was blocked.

Doug

Thanks for posting this.  I was getting way too much traffic from this bot.

-stile

Twiceler has come back with an alternative IP address starting 64.1

order allow,deny
deny from 38.99
deny from 64.1
allow from all

This will block it but also anyone properly using that IP address. I don't think that there will be that many ;-)

If your server allows it this code will block it and other user agents( If you add the code ie googlebot if you did not want Google's bots indexing your site!

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} EmailSiphon
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Exabot
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Twiceler
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Doug

ban this ip, please.

Another IP from Twiceler: 208.36.144.8

I've been searching around the web for info on Twiceler, as well as combing my access logs.  Combined from those two sources, here are the IP addresses I've blocked for Twiceler:

208.36.144.10
208.36.144.7
208.36.144.8
38.99.13.123
38.99.13.124
38.99.13.125
38.99.13.126
64.1.215.163
64.1.215.164
64.1.215.165

Aggh...hate that...had the wrong list copied on my clipboard.  Here's the current list I have, sorry for the double post:

208.36.144.10
208.36.144.7
208.36.144.8
38.99.13.121
38.99.13.122
38.99.13.123
38.99.13.124
38.99.13.125
38.99.13.126
38.99.44.101
38.99.44.102
38.99.44.103
38.99.44.104
38.99.44.105
64.1.215.163
64.1.215.164
64.1.215.165

This bot does not follow robots.txt. Here are their full IP ranges:

38.99.13.112 - 38.99.13.127
64.1.215.160 - 64.1.215.167
208.36.144.0 - 208.36.144.127

Thanks, adding to hosts.deny

38.99.13.112/28
64.1.215.160/29
208.36.144.0/27

This thing is a pest.

208.36.144.6 is also an ip adress which i found....