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Re:Nike.com's robots.txt by Shadonototra on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:57AM (#30303716)
i hope you don't ban the IPs permanently

nobody own their IP, and at some point a legitimate person will be assigned that IP

and most people who do bad things on the internet use some proxies, usually residential ones

it always makes me sad when people put such rules

Re:Nike.com's robots.txt by nixgeek on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:08PM (#30303890)
Most crawlers aren’t going to come from ASN which are populated with eyeballs.
Re:Nike.com's robots.txt by berkes on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:42AM (#30332546)
Fail2ban, by default, bans an IP for a limited time. For me that's 20mins.

This means that commonly only about 30 IPs are on the banlist. The chance that anyone using the same IP as a bot who is visiting any of the apps and sites on that server is not 0%, but tiny.

The only goal is to stop bots and worms from hammering my server. It hardly improves security; it shouldn't anyway.