MSNBOT being blacklisted

  • Resolved justanotherguy

    (@justanotherguy)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    I have an issue with <msnbot-13-66-139-38.search.msn.com>

    I have read through a few requests, and see the common answer from developer stating “The plugin doesn’t prevent search engines from crawling normal, public pages and indexing a website.”.

    I just want to be 100% still that applies when I see this:
    Malicious request denied – IP blacklisted

    Now, to my thinking, if Cerber is BLACKLISTING an IP, then it can in no way crawl that page – hence my query. The pages it is trying to access are real pages and are publicly accessible; so, why does the bot get blacklisted for trying to view them..?

    OR – is it not really an MSNBOT, and Cerber just blocked a hacker…?

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  • Thread Starter justanotherguy

    (@justanotherguy)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Almost 2 weeks and no reply.

    Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    If you see “IP is blacklisted,” that means it was blacklisted manually by the website admin, and so this IP has no access to anything other than static pages in read-only mode. In your case, I recommend removing all IP addresses from the Black IP Access List.

    Thread Starter justanotherguy

    (@justanotherguy)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, thanks for the reply. I have looked through the settings and can see what you mean. I had recently changed the site/s configuration, and only just noticed these occurrences. Obviously early settings – I will take that IP off black. Thanks for your help.

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