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Comment by IncreasePosts

6 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  6 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  6 months ago

Ah I see

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