On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 10:57 AM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> >> i wrote a program that counts requests by IP and frequency. That and > some > >> fancy code to teduce server load and the bots are blocked fairly well. > I > > > > Something that fail2ban can't handle? > > I'm not sure how well fail2ban would work for any of this. The majority of > machines hitting my hardware are residential IPs through proxy services. > It is > unusual for there to be more than a handful from any one address, which is > why > I've ended up querying ASNs for abusive traffic and dumping whole routes > into > the the packet filter. > > > It's all about the frequency. Also, you want to catch all of this stuff before a page load is attempted. This way when 1200 requests come in within the span of 5 minutes you can harmlessly deflect them. It took a while to perfect what works for my network, everyone is different. Firewall is also important.
