[Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots

[john at mcmaster.co.uk (John McMaster)]

Web logs, +1GB of transfer from a similar range of IP addresses.

Top 30 of 4346 Total Sites
#       Hits    Files   kB F    Visits  Hostname
1       382727  35.58%  191603  34.69%  293133  10.41%  2644    8.92%   
20.171.207.90
2       90236   8.39%   45556   8.25%   106515  3.78%   638     2.15%   
20.171.207.110
3       72181   6.71%   37981   6.88%   454871  16.15%  485     1.64%   
20.171.207.118
4       71925   6.69%   36094   6.53%   75167   2.67%   488     1.65%   
20.171.207.251
5       50956   4.74%   25438   4.60%   33603   1.19%   355     1.20%   
20.171.207.52
6       45118   4.19%   22376   4.05%   29615   1.05%   310     1.05%   
20.171.207.160
7       37043   3.44%   18490   3.35%   24426   0.87%   247     0.83%   
20.171.207.72
8       32144   2.99%   16065   2.91%   21214   0.75%   232     0.78%   
20.171.207.108
9       27972   2.60%   13980   2.53%   21018   0.75%   193     0.65%   
20.171.207.94
10      27062   2.52%   13430   2.43%   33955   1.21%   189     0.64%   
20.171.207.217
11      17982   1.67%   8991    1.63%   11871   0.42%   118     0.40%   
20.171.207.21
12      17556   1.63%   8777    1.59%   11602   0.41%   129     0.44%   
20.171.207.65
13      15660   1.46%   7830    1.42%   10369   0.37%   106     0.36%   
20.171.207.132
14      12686   1.18%   6343    1.15%   8400    0.30%   94      0.32%   
20.171.207.87
15      11234   1.04%   7140    1.29%   55942   1.99%   43      0.15%   
20.171.207.244
16      10638   0.99%   5319    0.96%   7044    0.25%   70      0.24%   
20.171.207.20
17      4808    0.45%   2403    0.44%   3183    0.11%   32      0.11%   
20.171.207.248
18      4036    0.38%   2018    0.37%   2664    0.09%   30      0.10%   
20.171.207.176
19      3910    0.36%   1955    0.35%   2589    0.09%   8       0.03%   
20.171.207.63
20      3672    0.34%   1836    0.33%   2424    0.09%   26      0.09%   
20.171.207.6

20.171.207.0/24 is a Microsoft block of IPs.......

john

?On 28/07/2025, 20:01, "LUG on behalf of Nathan Wajsman via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:

    Just out of curiosity, how do you detect that?

    Cheers,
    Nathan

    Nathan Wajsman
    photo at frozenlight.eu

    http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
    http://www.greatpix.eu
    http://www.frozenlight.eu
    @nwajsman.bsky.social

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    > On 28 Jul 2025, at 14:35, John McMaster via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:
    > 
    > I have had my website sucked in to several Ais ?
    > 
    > On 28/07/2025, 13:21, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" 
<lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org <mailto:mcmaster.co.uk 
at leica-users.org> on behalf of reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us <mailto:reid 
at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>> wrote:
    > 
    > 
    > Some AI system that I cannot identify has been overloading the LUG 
    > Gallery for the last couple of days. It appears from the logs that it 
is 
    > trying to extract every photo. The gallery software is too primitive 
to 
    > have any means of blocking it; I don?t see any choice but to let it 
    > finish.
    > 
    > 
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