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Comment by IncreasePosts

10 months ago

It seems better to put fake honeypot urls in robots.txt, and block any up that accesses those.

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trod1234  10 months ago

Blocking will never work.

You need to impose cost. Set up QoS buckets, slow suspect connections down dramatically (almost to the point of timeout).

Capricorn2481  10 months ago

Ah I see

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