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File for client DNS resolution as well as the default domain search is: /etc/resolve.conf Modify this file: vi /etc/resolve.conf to appear like: search relevantads.com nameserver 4.2.2.1 nameserver 4.2.2.4 No restart should be required. You can replace the term "relevantads.com" with your local domain name. That will allow for pinging a machine without fully qualified domain name. The nameserver records should ideally be provided by your ISP. The above 4.2... records are gold TLD's which may block abusive traffic.

I’ve made a parser command to find all references of GoogleBot (case insensitive) in our server logs, extract their source IP addresses, and summarize the hit count. To do this in Windows with your IIS logs files, you will need to have Gnu CoreUtili tools. First try this from command prompt, type in: grep -i "GoogleBot" c:\temp\logs\*.log | grep " / " | more You should get an output of text log records, each containing a GoogleBot request. Notice: · My log files are located in c:\temp\logs · I’m looking for requests to the root (“ / “); optional Next, extract the column containing the requestors IP address; in my log file, it is column number 9: grep -i "GoogleBot" c:\temp\logs\*.log | grep " / " | cut -f 9 -d " “ Lastly, sort, summarize and store the results to a local file: grep -i "GoogleBot" c:\temp\logs\*.log | grep ...