Re: How Do I Prevent Repetitive Hits

[Deepak Goel <deicool@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 9:47 PM John Iliffe <john.iliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For the last week we have been getting hit on average about every 3 seconds by a
machine that appears to be in Panama.  There should be no reason why this
machine would want to connect to us.

193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:04 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:05 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:06 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:08 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:10 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:11 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:24 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:26 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"
193.29.60.97 - - [25/Aug/2022:12:12:33 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200
3262 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36"

While it doesn't appear to be causing us any harm I am wondering why someone
would spend the time/money to do so and if there is any way to lock out this one
source.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

John
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