On 17.12.08 10:13, Peter Horn wrote: > I don't think this is quite off-topic, just a bit left of centre. :-\ > I run a small site with two subdomains of no-ip.org (like dyndns) using > NameVirtualHost. Looking at the access log, a few percent of my traffic > was from bots like Morfeus F***ing Scanner [my censorship], intrusion > attempts (e.g. GET /login_page.php) and just plain old "wrong numbers". > Nothing from what I'd think of as "good" bots (Google, etc.) Initially, > I added a first (i.e. default) vhost to serve a page saying "If you > don't know the URL, I'm not telling you." Then I refined this with the > obvious "Deny from all". > While this is definitely effective, do you consider it > honourable/ethical/sneaky/clever/dumb/whatever? Are there any likely > side-effects? I did something alike, a default-only virtual host. Requires some hacking, not accepted as bug :( https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39910 -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. My mind is like a steel trap - rusty and illegal in 37 states. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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