I was looking at some strange Webalizer stats for RakNet.
This IP address 211.153.203.4 has required 10.7 gigabytes worth of data in only 5 visits. That is 10X more than the next highest IP address 91.67.34.76.
The IP address is from China.
91.67.34.76 is in Germany, and has requested 1 gigabyte in a single visit.
I’m not sure, but my guess is all those forum spammers is some gang or bot computers because I can’t see what else would use that much bandwidth.
Edit:
Webhost told me to make a .htaccess file with this list:
Deny from 211.153.203. 91.67.34.76
I tried it with my own IP, and it seems to work.
Edit 2:
After doing this yesterday, today my traffic was down by 80%! So it looks like 4 out of 5 visits were just spam bots from China trying to hack the forum. Good grief!