[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Aug 15 16:44:26 EDT 2023


On 2023-08-15 04:10, bill wrote:
> On 8/14/2023 7:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>> However, yes, there is a "defence" mechanism. If the system detects a 
>> lot of "bad" traffic from an address, it will eventually get blocked, 
>> and the block will only drop once there is no traffic from that 
>> address for a certain amount of time. And of course, if they start 
>> abusing again, they will get blocked again.
> 
> Why would you ever unblock it?

Because I'm nice?
Because sometimes these are dynamically allocated addresses, and at a 
later time, it might from someone completely different that I don't want 
to block.

Like I said - I'm serving a lot of legit content, and aim to try and be 
useful to everyone.

   Johnny




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