Hi There,

My system has been absolutely tied up by my (not)friend Google-bot as they
tried to scan my Internet fidonet nodes (geez :) ).  What a pia.. I took
care of it as soon as I noticed it though.. Luckily, bbbs has a feature
that lets you keep all connections or some, whichever you like, that try to
tie up your tcpip nodes.. I have 7 each of binkp, www, telnet, and raw
tcpip.. so the idiots at google-bot were trying anyway they could.. I
laughed when I saw them try the port on 24555 (my bbbs binkp port).. still
a problem because the attempt is made, but once I got their ip address in
with the / at the end of the ip address to specify any port they used, that
took care of it.

For those of you that use BBBS, and run into this, this is what I put in inet.bbb:

[bbbsd]

!ftp 66.249.65/$
!www 66.249.65/$
!tcpip 66.249.65/$
!binkp 66.249.65/$

Seemed like it should work fine, and it did 

Take care,
Janis

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