Not an exact answer to your question, but since you appear to be using
Apache, maybe use the "deny" directive instead.

For example, I have used:

Deny from 206.135.134.219
ErrorDocument 403 "Why do you fetch this webpage so many times? We do have a datafile for retrieval listing our updates.

You could use a partial IP to represent a network, domain names, netmasks,
CIDR, etc. See the Apache docs for examples. Examples are here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_access.html#allow


 Jeremy C. Reed

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