Hello, On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I've done that with the help of a previous responder and now have 99% of > the pigs that ignore my robots.txt blocked. semrush is extremely > determined and has switched to a 4th address I've not seen before, but > is no longer DDOSing my site.
You've repeatedly been advised to block these bots in Apache by their UserAgent. Have you tried that yet? It would be a lot simpler than fail2ban or trying to keep up with their IP addresses. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
