[ic] Bad Robot 24 hour wait not doing it's job

[Peter]

On 19/09/11 23:23, Peter wrote:
> On 18/09/11 06:29, Paul Jordan wrote:
>> My question to everyone is what are you guys doing to block this
>> traffic? There are repeatedly tons of these, and to me it's just stolen
>> bandwidth and CPU cycles. Am I missing some standard everyone else is
>> aware of, or is there any simple and creative ways to block these?
> 
> The way to do this is to set a lockout specialsub that writes an
> iptables rule or just add lines to /etc/hosts.deny to block the traffic.
>  Of course such a rule would have to be removed 24 hours later.

...or just write rules for mod_access, this is probably better because
it doesn't require root access (which would need a suid binary to access
from IC).


Peter