First, thank you to all the folks who replied with possible solutions. This is very much appreciated. Second, we are a very small company with a geographically limited customer base. (Canada) so we would not expect anything coming in from Panama. My concern was/is that if I blacklist an IP, then it could subsequently be assigned to a different user by the ISP who might, in fact, be a potential customer, so I was hoping for a dynamic solution such as "this guy has 25 404 responses in a row so don't respond again or something like that. However, in this case it is unlikely that would happen so I updated the firewall and that should avoid the problem. Thanks again folks. John ========== On Thu, 2022-08-25 at 20:38 +0100, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote: > On 25/08/2022 20:03, Frank Gingras wrote: > > Generally speaking, it's a bit rude to hijack someone else's thread. > > > > > > > > It is not rude to ask a supplement question in someone's thread. I asked > a legitimate supplement question and you gave one solution; Paul gave > another solution. Now it remains to decide which one to implement > efficiently without slowing things down. > > What is rude is to jump to the conclusion without understanding the > reason for the supplement question. I bet the OP wanted to block all > traffic from Panama because it is unlikely he has any customers or > potential customers in Panama. again i am assuming this! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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