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Denying access
Authored by: juanfc on Mar 19, '03 12:01:20PM
I deny-ed the access to the ips who ask my server for NNNNNNN, robots, etc... including in the http.conf the order deny from 1.2.3.4 4.3.2.1 ...... but the log reflects that that not works. How should I deny the access to those stupid requests that only waste the time of my near local apache server? I collect hundreds of IPs that asks for "bad" things in my server. I suppose the deny from is not the correct way of doing this things.

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Denying access
Authored by: mcroft on Mar 19, '03 02:46:41PM
Use Little Dutch Moose from Wundermoosen Software. It watches port 80 for requests that match patterns you set and if it finds them, it puts them in ipfw's rules. It expires them after 90 days, so you don't get a stale list.

It lets you add your own paterns, so if you get tired of assholes looking for to abuse formmail.pl on your sever, autoban them.

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