Re: Correctly dealing with bots and scrapers.

["Constantine A. Murenin via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 at 14:33, Andrew Latham via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> related topic. Security Scans. Any requests for wordpress could be an
> easy way to flag and block with fail2ban when wordpress is not in use.

For WordPress and PHP, I think it's simply easier to catch the
scenarios with a nginx config, and cheaply return errors from the
front end webserver, without wasting any of the real backend
resources.

C.
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