Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2020 04:05:53 john doe wrote: > > > On 2/26/2020 9:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Be my guest folks, reclaim the net, we are paying for the bandwidth > > > these jerks are burning up. > > > > The above is the way the OP has choosen to go about it but configuring > > apache properly using fail2ban in addition of the robot.txt file. > > should also be considered > > That was also suggested and tried, for about a week, but there were no > failures to initiate the ban from. So I got out a bigger hammer. This
While fail2ban comes with a bunch of recognizers, it's fairly easy to customize it -- anything that generates a log file with an IP address and some condition that you can pick up with a regex is fair game. > What I fail to understand is why the universal reticence on the part of > all the knowitalls here to use the almost 20 year old tools given us to > control these jerks? Particularly when it looks like its the only tool > that actually and effectively works. In this case of this knowitall, it's because I've used those tools, written my own -- just like you -- and I have come to appreciate the value of sharing tools -- just like you -- so when I see that lots of people recommend a tool, I find some value in seeing if it's right for me. If someone went to the bother of packaging it for Debian, and other people say it's a good tool -- maybe it is. And maybe they are wrong. And it could certainly not be the right tool for me, or for you, in this particular circumstance. -dsr-
