Re: vent thread: whats driving you nuts?
By: pweck to All on Mon Sep 21 2026 20:28:38

bots hammering your telnet port? node that reboots at 3am? get it off your chest here, somebody probly has a fix or at least sympathy.
pweck

No, Synchronet has plenty of facilities to help with bot attacks, plus I have various iptables rules and scripts for other stuff so it's not often I get hammered into the ground these days.
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bots hammering your telnet port? node that reboots at 3am? get it off y chest here, somebody probly has a fix or at least sympathy.

No, Synchronet has plenty of facilities to help with bot attacks, plus I have various iptables rules and scripts for other stuff so it's not
often I get hammered into the ground these days.

yes, but they will still try, i dont think they are going away, likely getting smarter too

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Re: Re: vent thread: whats driving you nuts?
By: pweck to Nigel Reed on Mon Sep 28 2026 19:20:10

yes, but they will still try, i dont think they are going away, likely getting smarter too

As will detection methods and antibot systems. Sure, we'll always be playing catch up but there is much that can be done to mitigate them. Block China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia and you'll solve 90% of your problems. The rest seem to come from Digital Ocean, googleusercontent.com, Microsoft and Amazon cloud servers.
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