Hi. On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:50:40PM -0500, Lee wrote: > On 2/26/20, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new > > breed of bots scanning our web pages, and they are not just indexing our > > web pages I don't mind that, but they are ignoring our robots.txt and > > are mirroring anything apache2 can reach, including stuff thats there > > but not reachable by a normal browser just looking around and clicking > > on links. > <.. snip ..> > > To add a new rule, covering that whole 256 address block because they > > seem to have a random address, changed about weekly, in that block: > > > > root@coyote:iptables$ cat iptables-add > > > > #!/bin/bash > > iptables -I INPUT -s add.ress.to.block/24 -j DROP > > Have you considered REJECT instead of DROP?
A neat idea for your LAN. A bad idea in this case. You *want* that other side to retry, wasting their time instead of spamming their target. In fact, one should consider using TARPIT instead of a DROP here. Reco
