> On Apr 8, 2025, at 12:36 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> The site pings fine, trace route is fine. Interestingly, plain HTTP also >> seems to work fine, while HTTPS times out... >> > > > I manage a few other websites and those servers have been getting hit > hard in the last weeks or months from AI bots (they are crawling our > articles) and the general website responsiveness has been slower. It's > possible that's what is happening here.
While there is little doubt that type of activity has been on the rise, I think a lot of load comes from bad actors searching for weaknesses. My server is fairly harsh and aggressive on such activities. For example, WordPress is not nor ever has been on my server. Normal crawlers would never ask for the admin interface to WordPress on my site. It has never existed there. If such a black-listed page is requested and does not exist, the IP is immediately banned for a very long time. The ever-growing list of banned IPs is currently around 50,000. Of course, there are other security measures in place. While it is possible that such a request to a black-listed page could be benign, it would not be made by a human. It would be from some sort of statistic gathering bot and I could care less if it gets banned. It has no effect on search engine crawlers like google. Unfortunately, such aggressive measures are not really suited for many servers like IBIBLIO. That reminds me I should get around to adding some new entries to the black-list. I like the server to catch such behavior as fast as possible. :-) > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
