Fastly Outage - Hackdot

Re:Fastly Outage by toastal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:58AM (#27435291)

I reod some people use false slugs in the robots.txt as a honey pot of sorts. IPs that actually read the robots.txt, ignore the disallow, and still access the uri are outright banned.

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Re:Fastly Outage by taylorfinley on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:18PM (#27438032)

Then when a flamewar breaks out you just have to get your adversary to click a link to get them IP banned.

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Re:Fastly Outage by jedberg on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:12AM (#27436238)

Ha, that would have been a really smart idea! Sadly we didn't think of that at the time. But we had other honey pot URLs.

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