On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 01:39:53PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:

> Okay well 30KiB/s is only about 78GiB/month which isn't really a
> lot. I think we're both in UK and it's been hard to find a domestic
> Internet connection that you'd run a web server on that can't cope
> with 78G/mo. So ignoring it seems okay.

I have been with my ISP for 14 years (moved to get IPv6), for various reasons I
cannot change to a tariff that will give me anything like that (their support
has also fallen through the floor) - I need to change (& the landline) and then
I prolly would not care. Andrews & Arnold and Zen seem recommended.

> You say these never complete a TCP handshake even though you do run
> Apache on port 80? If so, it does make me wonder what they are
> trying to do.

They might be trying to hijack an existing TCP connection or, even simpler,
cause my machine problems by having many, many 1/2 set up TCP connections
(which uses memory until they expire).

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