OT-but maybe someone can help :)-annoying ISP#

Total beginner here in HTML, etc, so please bear w/me .I have been having an ISP hitting my site every hour for the last three weeks and it's just ticking me off.I have tracked it down to a company in China, etc, but cannot find a valid email address to express my concern/question as to what the heck are you doing?It's obviously a robot of some sort since it never stays on site, and as I said, it's hourly (not exactly but close enough).And heck, my site is nothing worth visiting every hour of every day, rofl
I contacted Yahoo, who is my webhost, no response .I just wondered if anyone had a suggestion on how or if I could someone stop this ISP from hitting my site?Other than just annoying, it screws up my stats which I track, etc.Again, please remember I'm a newbie w/programming, lol, so try not to get too technical for me, lol
The ISP #, BTW, is 211.97.182.# in case anyone wanted to help track.I went into APNIC and got the info they had but no success tracking down a contact email, etc
Thanks for any suggestions or help .

They give the telephone number -- why not try ring that number

Lol, that's my last resort since it'll cost me a small fortune to call, I'm sure and I'm afraid I won't get English, lol .My foreign languages catalogue is very very very limited

Because it is in China, it is a lost cause. A majority of spam comes from china ... a huge chunk of port scanning and other malicious network activity .. and admins over there rarely speak english, and often complaints in english just get put in the bit bucked by a filter. I've been an ISP sysadmin for 5 years, and I havn't ever had a complaint even acknowledged (whether for spam, using services like ARIS, or generating the complaint myself).

If Yahoo charges you for the traffic, you can complain about it and they'll remove that traffic from your quota. Unless they're sucking a mb an hour or something, complaining will rarely get you anywhere, even if its domestic. Portscanning, ramdom and repeated traffic, and spam are just a reality of the internet world.

Lowell

Thanks Lowell.I do get charged by Yahoo but they're not really making a dent in my traffic, so the hassle of trying to talk to Yahoo about it would be pointless, lol..at least at the moment
Thank you for the info.Any idea though what or why they're hitting my site?Like for what purpose?

It's one of those things. Why do people tag walls with graffiti? Most of the time it's 100% random, and a script kiddie just has a little uril that probes here and there ... with a script kiddie that doesn't know what they're doing behind it, its easy for them to configure the util wrong preform useless probes to sites where it will do no good. Other times they do it just to be annoying to corporations (they might be hitting every yahoo-hosted site they can find). Who knows. Unless it costs you money or causes huge headaches (not just a slight annoyance), don't worry about it =).

If the traffic is enough to make yahoo bump you to the next level of service (charge you another gig/month or something), contact yahoo's billing dept (not their over-worked abuse dept) and ask to have that traffic removed.

Do the requests have a referrer set? Recently there has been a huge wave of lamers hitting dozens of sites 100-500 times a day with porn sites in the referrer trying to get into statistics pages.

Lowell

no, no referrer set or anything-it just shows the ISP hitting it every hour and doesn't even stay a minute.It's Unicom in China by it's info, so can't see it having a link to a porn site or anything, but heck you never know right ?And it certainly isn't making me bump up in usage, so guess I'll just have to ignore it, lol...
Thank you for the help and info

Hi.

You should use your .htaccess file to deny the access to these IP. Sometimes a good friend told me the exact way to do it exactly but now I've lost the file.

Maybe searching "deny htaccess" in google...

just a thought,

if you can't get through to your web host in times of need then i'd highly recommend switching hosts.

i've hosted my sites at WeDoHosting.com in Victoria, Canada and anytime i've had an issue i give them a call and it's solved (with one exception but it was my own damn fault for writing a bad script).

websites are business. if your host doesn't treat it accordingly then it's not a good host at all.

just my opinion but i prefer dealing with companies i can actually speak with a live human being at.

Well I actually got through to someone through emails, and did find a Yahoo # to call (like finding the Holy Grail, rofl).The ISP seems to have stopped hitting my site, or maybe it's taking a break , or maybe Yahoo finally banned them-who knows?All I know is that my traffic is now legitimate traffic , not this dumb thing
Thanks for all the help and advice

that's waht we are here for, stick arround in case someone else needs your help on something, that is what will make this message board great! 8)

Oh I'm not going anywhere .Always trying to improve my site, and the little ones I make for friends, so I've found this to be a great resource for tips, etc

If they are actually letting the page load, then just put a popup on the page that pays per thousand views, and let the money roll in . But if your users see it, they will hate you. popups=evil

-Josh