Just curious, was the "fairly legit search engine" semrush.com? I've seen a few sites get overwhelmed by them recently.
Mark On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 06:03:09PM -0800, pjc...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Well I certainly use it to defend from that kind of attack all the time. > Can you give us some idea of the rate (ie: how many requests per > second)? Also, for that kind of attack it's important to be using the > recidive filter. By any chance is it a wordpress site? > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016, at 04:31 PM, Grant wrote: > > I recently suffered DoS from a series of 10 sequential IP addresses > > which identified themselves as being associated with a fairly legit > > search engine. fail2ban would have dealt with the problem if a single > > IP address had been used. Can it be made to work in a situation like > > this where a series of sequential IP addresses are in play? > > > > - Grant > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Fail2ban-users mailing list > > Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Fail2ban-users mailing list > Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users -- Mark Costlow | Southwest Cyberport | Fax: +1-505-232-7975 che...@swcp.com | Web: www.swcp.com | Voice: +1-505-232-7992 Mail Minder - Intelligent Push Notifications for Email on the iPhone http://mailminderapp.com/download or in the App Store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
