SafeDNSBot
SafeDNS web crawler for security analysis
About this crawler
SafeDNSBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern SafeDNSBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block SafeDNSBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- SafeDNSBot
- Pattern
SafeDNSBot- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://www.safedns.com/searchbot
- Added
- 2016/09/10
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
SafeDNSBot (https://www.safedns.com/searchbot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow SafeDNSBot:
User-agent: SafeDNSBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SafeDNSBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SafeDNSBot") {
return 403;
}
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