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  1. J

    Question New bad bot fail2ban filter: will overwrite customization?

    Hi, over the years I've been adding manually to the apache-badbots fail2ban filter specific entries for my server. Will these be lost if I update Plesk to version 18.0.63? Per the changelog (https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/obsidian/change-log/?18063-mu3#plesk-18063):
  2. T

    Question Fail2ban trying to setup a rule to ban ai bots

    Hello plesk users, we are trying to setup a fail2ban jail filter rule which can ban most badbots and mainly the big 4 aws-amazon, ovh, alibaba, and hetzner. We had follow from plesk official and/or from talk forum...
    • Tomsohner
    • Thread
    • ai badbots amazonbot aws-badbots badbots fail2ban fail2ban jail jail jail filter
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Open Topics
  3. M

    Question fail2ban, can I ban visitors with no user agent?

    So I am getting constant code 200 requests to my website with no user interaction, as in they never open an image or anything just scraping. This is just wasting server resources. So I have recently started using the badbots filter to get rid of some of that. Then for some odd reason, I was...
  4. W

    Question Too much connections to blacklisted bot IP's

    Hi. I've recently observed quite a large amount of outgoing connections from port 25 to numerous (malicious?) IP's through postfix, in turn creating several rather strange smtpd processes. I think they are bad bots. I'm mass banning them via fail2ban in the plesk-postfix part every time they do...
  5. J

    Question Blocking bots at server level

    How is it possible to block bots, such as MJ12bot, at server level on a Plesk for Windows ?
  6. T

    Resolved What does Enable Bot Protection Actually Block?

    What bots does the enable bot protection in WordPress Toolkit for Plesk actually do? Is it a modification to htaccess? Is it php directives? How can I see this list? Can I edit this list? Seems a bit bold to put an option in for blocking bad bots without any documentation.
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