Helmdall - crawler dot com

[milonic]

Hi All,

Recently got hit hard from a crawler with a user_agent of Helmdall (webmaster@crawler . com)

This crawler wasn't very well behaved and completely bombarded our server with requests. As it's dynamic and uses MySQL it caused problems because it consumed all of the allowed connections. Probably not the best way I know but it's been OK until this crawler came along.

Anyway, I decided to block it with an Apache RewriteRule - My question is this:

Is it wise to block this crawler, does anybody know about it?

Thanks for any help you can provide

Cheers,
Andy

[jestep]

I've never heard of it, but I doubt that blocking it would cause any problems.