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From: legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca>
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Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:41:24 -0400
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:54:06 +0000, Peter
<occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

>IME, the hidden google re-captcha works brilliantly against bots.
>Presumably by examining the timing. Set the threshold to 0.6 and off
>you go. I run a fairly busy tech forum.
>
>Another approach is to put your site behind Cloudflare. For hobby /
>noncommercial sites this is free. And you get handy stuff like
>
>- https certificate is done for you
>- you can block up to 5 countries (I blocked Russia China and India)
>
>Ideally you should firewall your server to accept web traffic only
>from the set of CF IPs, but in practice this is not necessary unless
>somebody is out to get you (there are websites which carry IP history
>for a given domain, believe it or not!!!)

My ISP has finally blocked all China IP addresses from accessing the 
site.

Maybe that's what the bots want; who knows.

Haven't had access to the site to find out what the practical result 
is, yet. 

RL