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Subject: [Leica] LUG Gallery being swamped by AI bots
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:14:47 -0700
References: <e1f212496f1cba259767d1594e25fbc2@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> <B68D437C-F9A1-40DB-B2DD-58BA2D403518@mcmaster.co.uk> <16377161-8261-4361-AB8E-80BB3FEA4C67@frozenlight.eu> <49DF0CC1-C0C9-49E8-A3E6-A5699A08D5AE@mcmaster.co.uk>

Probably Azure domains?

Adam Bridge


> On Jul 28, 2025, at 12:07?PM, John McMaster via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
>    ????? ???????! ?????? ?????!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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