Fed up with bots hammering your site? Block them by simply dropping the connection. When they present their user agent all they get is a HTTP 444 (just close connection, do not reply).
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Automatically block asshole bots
There’s a great many bots out there that set off so many requests webservers can get swamped. This script searches for particular user agents, finds the originating ip address (ipv4 or ipv6) and then blocks the whole subnet. This is specifically done for yandex and MJ12bot who use a large amount of subnets. This script …
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