[ale] Ouch goddamnit

lollipopman691 lollipopman691 at pm.me
Thu Aug 14 11:23:22 EDT 2025


More assholes from China bringing my site down.  When I rebooted, I couldn't help but notice that my uptime(1) stats were spiking into the double-digit range and the system was becoming unresponsive.

I wrote a quick and simple script to figure out who these guys are so I can block them at the AWS firewall.  If anyone else can use it, here ( https://tomshiro.org/foswiki/ALE/BadActorScript ) 'tis.

Looks like if I am _really_ clever I might-could figure out a way to let fail2ban(1) handle this automagically. A project for another day.

-- CHS


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