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Getting slammed by a client

Martin Keegan martin at no.ucant.org

Sat Jul 25 10:18:27 BST 2020

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On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Hannu Hartikainen wrote:

Should we develop low-resource honeypots to exhaust crawler resources?
Or start maintaining a community blacklist?

I'd start with hardening Gemini servers ...

The server I've written has a bunch of hard limits (in particular, on the duration of requests and the number of concurrent CGI processes). It might be advisable to add some more back-pressure for the case where user-agents are generating obviously redundant requests to an excessive degree. I'd put that before trying honeypots and blacklists.

Mk

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