[kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

No. I use it for clients.

It is basically a Varnish server for the free tier (caching reverse proxy).

For the paid tiers, they have a web application firewall, which is supposed
to do what I want (protect from spammers etc.). But the fact is that it is
both useless for real spammers, and over aggressive for legit users (forces
a CAPTCHA on them, even logged in ones).

Very frustrating ... clever marketing though ...
On Nov 16, 2015 10:29 PM, "B.S." <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I came across https://www.cloudflare.com/ the other day, and noticed, I
> think, comments about blacklisting / known spammers, and so on. Would it
> bring anything to your party?
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
> >To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> >Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 9:44 PM
> >Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent
> >
> >
> >
> >I have not seen Bittorrent traffic.
> >
> >But what I am seeing recently on many sites is that comment spammers
> coming in over HTTP via Tor exit nodes, trying to register users and/or
> post SEO comments.
> >
> >
> >Makes it very hard to do anything about them. Depending on the site we
> either just let it be, as long as it is not too much of a resource drain,
> or block the IP address, and then they pop in back after a few days on a
> new one.
> >
> >
> >An arms race causing a whack-a-mole scenario ...
>
>
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