I was blocking them but decided to shunt their traffic to Nepenthes instead. There’s usually 3-4 different bots thrashing around in there at any given time.
Oh interesting! Ive done something similar but not didnt put as much effort.
For me, I just made an unending webpage that would create a link to another page…that would say bullshit. Then it would have another link with more bullshit…etc…etc…And it gets slower as time goes on.
Also made a fail2ban banning IPs that reached a certain number of links down. It worked really well, traffic is down 95% and it does not affect any real human users. Its great :)
I have a robots.txt that should tell them not to look at the sites. But if they dont want to read it, I dont want to be nice.
Requests per second getting higher, and higher, then they level out – but the server is just barely hanging in there, frantically serving as many requests as it possibly can, and then all at once they come crashing down into warm, gentle waves of relaxing human pings.
I was blocking them but decided to shunt their traffic to Nepenthes instead. There’s usually 3-4 different bots thrashing around in there at any given time.
If you have the resources, I highly recommend it.
Reference for lazy ones: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
Success?
This… is fucking amazing
Oh interesting! Ive done something similar but not didnt put as much effort.
For me, I just made an unending webpage that would create a link to another page…that would say bullshit. Then it would have another link with more bullshit…etc…etc…And it gets slower as time goes on.
Also made a fail2ban banning IPs that reached a certain number of links down. It worked really well, traffic is down 95% and it does not affect any real human users. Its great :)
I have a robots.txt that should tell them not to look at the sites. But if they dont want to read it, I dont want to be nice.
Bruh if you had a live stream of this I would subscribe to your only fans.
I… I don’t know how you’d even stream that? A log of pages loaded?
Keep going I’m almost there…
Requests per second getting higher, and higher, then they level out – but the server is just barely hanging in there, frantically serving as many requests as it possibly can, and then all at once they come crashing down into warm, gentle waves of relaxing human pings.