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Author: onefang
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To: devuan-mirrors
Subject: Re: [devuan-mirrors] [DNG] Artificial Idiocy attacking mirrors.
What people do with their own domains is their own business, but
deb.devuan.org is the Devuan teams business, it's our domain. The Devuan
team decides what goes on http://deb.devuan.org/ The same applies to the
CC.deb.devuan.org domains.

So all Devuan package mirrors should be serving the exact same thing when
responding to http://deb.devuan.org/ and the country code versions.

We have https://pkginfo.devuan.org/ for searching for packages, so we
don't really need the search bots scanning us. The AI bots found non
Devuan things on some of our mirrors at http://deb.devuan.org/, hence why
they keep scanning http://deb.devuan.org/ for non Devuan package repos.

So we decided to just stop the bots from scanning http://deb.devuan.org/
which is why there is now a http://deb.devuan.org/robots.txt that tells
all the bots that bother to obey it not to scan http://deb.devuan.org/

For those bots that ignore robots.txt there will soon be a
http://deb.devuan.org/index.html file. This will include links to the
package repo stuff and no other links. "http://deb.devuan.org/" should
serve this index.html.

In this way the behaving bots just wont scan anything, and the
misbehaving bots will only find Devuan package repo, nothing else, when
they scan http://deb.devuan.org/

Hopefully within a week the bots will have forgotten the non Devuan stuff
they have been scanning http://deb.devuan.org/ for, and they wont be
bogging down our mirrors and filling our logs with 404s. I'm certainly
tired of the same non existent files being scanned for 7000 times a day.

This should also help with the bots scanning Devuan package mirrors for
non existant packages, that are not at deb.devuan.org, but that can still
leak a bit.

Cross our fingers, hope this helps.