[ale] Ouch, dang it.

[Solomon Peachy]

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 10:31:19PM +0000, lollipopman691 via Ale wrote:
> Has anyone seen this kind of thing before?  I currently plan to leave httpd down for a few days and then restart it and see if this trouble has gone away. I reckon the long-term solution is to move my mail server off the web machine and then just let it do its thing?

Oh yes, very much so.  Welcome to the world of AI training bots.

I've been forced to move a foswiki (twiki's successor) instance off the 
public www and make it authentication-only, while publishing a static 
snapshot.  That's kept the foswiki instance from being DoSed repeatedly, 
but while that helps the foswiki instance, the other resources still get 
slammed.

So I also block quite a few IP ranges now, along with a growing list of 
user agents.  such is life.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libera.chat)
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