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web crawlers shutting down my site

I have a tomcat site running on a server2008r2 machine.

My site is no longer responsive.

a netstat -a command yields the results in the attached file

how do I block all those things from jamming my port 80?

thanks
netstata2.txt

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Thanks, Guy. I'm going to try these solutions.

I do have a question regarding the wikipedia article, something I don't understand.

The article talks about keeping crawlers out of the site or out of specific folders, but what I don't understand is why are the crawlers establishing all those port 80 connections, which is effectively shutting down the site. Is that their intent?

Thanks again.

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where do I put a robots.txt file? I don't have one right now.

It goes in the root folder of your web site.

hi gateguard,

The wiki page in my very first post explains everything about the robots file.

Regards

Guy