# Yandex cannot index site dut to error 403

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**Category:** Hosting Support\
**Created:** [October 19, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/yandex-cannot-index-site-dut-to-error-403/84844 "2023-10-19T20:59:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/yandex-cannot-index-site-dut-to-error-403/84844/10 "2023-10-31T16:44:52Z")

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Hi ChrisPAR and oldfagtv,

You may reference this link:

> **[How to check that a robot belongs to Yandex - Webmaster. Help](https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots.html)**
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> A number of Yandex robots download web documents for purposes other than indexing. To avoid unintentional blocking by site owners, they may ignore the file's restrictive directives robots.txtdesigned for arbitrary robots (User-agent: \*).

Yandex is a Russian search engine platform and its user agent is often spoofed, however, they do not offer any other validation methods other than reverse DNS toward their domain.

Unless a solution to check for the reverse DNS per hit, it’s likely Yandex indexing is not compatible with InfinityFree.

Cheers!

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