Very simple bot blocking utility in php and iptables

Re:Very simple bot blocking utility in php and iptables by mindhacker on Monday July 06, 2009 @11:13PM (#690830)

I use this script for similar purpose - http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.ddos

The advantage of this script is that it directly monitors the IPs using netstat so one could stop bots from hammering things other than your webserver, say socket connections.

It is customizable to use APF or iptables and worked quite well when one of my friend's site was hit.

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Re:Very simple bot blocking utility in php and iptables by jacquesm on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @03:32AM (#691086)

Neat!

Thank you, I'll definitely look in to it. The biggest problem with blocking bots is false positives, identifying and giving a pass to your real users. It's a surprisingly hard problem, bot writers are quite clever when it comes to masquerading as real users.

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