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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: overseers@sourceware.org,
	Patchwork Admin <patchwork-admin@sourceware.org>
Subject: New fail2ban for excessive httpd errors
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 00:10:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240201231043.GD867@gnu.wildebeest.org> (raw)

Hi,

We got a spider which overloaded patchwork again causing hundreds of
error messages/emails. I added a new fail2ban config (apache-dos) that
triggers on excessive error from a host in the httpd logs.

I believe it only captures bad bots/spiders/scripts. But if it is too
agressive please let me know.

The ban is just for 15 minutes. You can see who is current banned with
fail2ban-client status apache-dos

And you can always unban people with fail2ban-client unban <ip>

Cheers,

Mark

                 reply	other threads:[~2024-02-01 23:10 UTC|newest]

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