Re: Correctly dealing with bots and scrapers.

[Andrew Latham via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Andrew

The issue is that it is hitting a gitea instance and a mediawiki instance, then
getting lost in the commit/change diff system. I should just just figue out how
to dissable the difference tools on gitea and mediawiki to keep the bots from
going down a rabbit hole on a decade or more of commits and page edits.

These are CPU intensive which is my issue at the moment.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 9:53 AM Andrew Kirch via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> Get a small version of a very old very fast very inaccurate LLM.  Have it
> generate a couple terabytes of endless nonsense.
>
> Redirect scrapers to it, and poison whatever LLM they are trying to train.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM Andrew Latham via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> > I just had an issue with a web-server where I had to block a /18 of a
> > large scraper. I have some topics I could use some input on.
> >
> > 1. What tools or setups have people found most successful for dealing
> > with bots/scrapers that do not respect robots.txt for example?
> >
> > 2. What tools for response rate limiting deal with bots/scrapers that
> > cycle over a large variety of IPs with the exact same user agent?
> >
> > 3.  Has anyone written or found a tool to concentrate IP addresses
> > into networks for IPTABLES or NFT? (60% of IPs for network X in list
> > so add network X and remove individual IP entries.)
> >
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