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[Kiriakos GR]

My forum seems under attach by Microsoft bingbot = BING search engine.
This is not listed at default spiders and I did a new Spider addition at SMF list of Spiders.
The problem is that  bingbot using more than 15 IP and this field about adding coma separated IP have a limit of how many you can add to it.
Is there any way to add an IP range instead of many single  IP ? 

[Jade Elizabeth]

You will have to add a new one for each (which isn't so bad ). You can also try this mod:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1157

Also this mod might help you out a little too:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=882

Also a robots.txt file limiting Bing might be a great idea. Do you need a hand creating one?

[Oldiesmann]

Unless Microsoft is using a non-standard user agent string for that, you shouldn't need to add IP addresses - just enter "bingbot" (without the quotes) for the "User Agent" when adding it and SMF should detect it just fine regardless of what IP address it's visiting from.