On Wednesday 26 February 2020 13:54:09 Reco wrote: > 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
Now thats a thought, does it take much fiddling to set that up? Links to tuts plz. Thanks Reco 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>
