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  • Web server and BOT's

    From Richard Vonzel@VERT to All on Wed Jun 25 04:25:24 2025
    Hello All.

    I turned on the Synchronet Web server, works great, hsad my website running. Had my BBS's files available for access thru it. Yesterday I guess a BOT got on my site and jst downloaded all the file I had available. Here's the log entry for this,

    6/24 05:36:27p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1825: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_ads&thread=105 HTTP/1.1
    6/24 05:36:27p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
    6/24 05:36:28p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1826: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=177 HTTP/1.1
    6/24 05:36:28p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
    6/24 05:36:29p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1827: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=801 HTTP/1.1

    Is there a way to stop someone from using a BOT to take the files besides turning off the server?


    RickV

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Richard Vonzel on Wed Jun 25 14:02:22 2025
    Re: Web server and BOT's
    By: Richard Vonzel to All on Wed Jun 25 2025 04:25 am

    I turned on the Synchronet Web server, works great, hsad my website running. Had my BBS's files available for access thru it. Yesterday I guess a BOT got on my site and jst downloaded all the file I had available. Here's the log entry for this,

    6/24 05:36:27p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1825: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_ads&thread=105 HTTP/1.1
    6/24 05:36:27p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)
    6/24 05:36:28p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1826: GET /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=177 HTTP/1.1
    6/24 05:36:28p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

    Is there a way to stop someone from using a BOT to take the files besides turning off the server?

    yeah there's a lot of ways. you can also just make it so logged in users have access to your msgs and files. please checkout the wiki and just read through it in your free time.

    The synchronet docs overall are a good source of information, unlike most other bbs softwares.

    you're running a service available to the entire internet. someone could go in and do some horrible stuff if you don't secure your system.
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