On Sunday 03 November 2019 10:27:34 John Hasler wrote: > I doubt that you can get their attention and even if you did I doubt > that they would stop: they may very well be deliberately targeting > sites with a robots.txt. > > One reason they may be doing this is in search of vulnerable sites > that they can hijack. > > You may need to implement access control.
Thru /etc/hosts.deny? The only thing that works is to uncomment the PARANOID rule. But that blocks legit requests too. I already have all these bots in my hosts.deny with a CIDR /24 on the end of the address. I can restart apache2, and get about 15 to 20 minutes of peace, then they are right back using all my upload bandwitdh reading the whole file. Thats a DDOS AFAIConcerned. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
