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Re:Ask HN: What Linux setup/hardening guide do you use? by casual-dev on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:57PM (#32770328)
Im curious: Why are you running a fake HTTP server? To slow down bots for a while or does it serve a higher purpose?
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Re:Ask HN: What Linux setup/hardening guide do you use? by bediger4000 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:25PM (#32774949)
Slow down bots, and to see what garbage they're sending. I keep track of POST data and HTTP headers.

I'm on CenturyLink fiber, they are apparently so incompetent they can't take my money for a static IP address, so whoever is doing HTTP requests is blindly trolling CenturyLink residential IPv4 blocks. Nobody doing this is up to anything legit.

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