This is an interesting bit of code. However if you are being ddos-ed, this just eliminates nginx from replying. It isn't like nginx is isolated from the attack. I would still rather block the IP at the firewall and prevent nginx from doing any action.
The use of $bot_agent opens up a lot of possibilities of the value can be fed to the log file. Original Message From: shiz Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:24 PM To: nginx@nginx.org Reply To: nginx@nginx.org Subject: Re: limit_req per subnet? I've inplemented something based on https://community.centminmod.com/threads/blocking-bad-or-aggressive-bots.6433/ Works perfectly fine for me. Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,271483,271535#msg-271535 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
