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Re: swamp rat bots Q

From john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: swamp rat bots Q
Date 2020-12-04 07:40 +0100
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On 12/4/2020 7:03 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> what file do I edit to add todays
>> /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to
>> watch.  That's the log file with the real data in it today.  And
>> does it need enabled in another, different file.
>
> Again we have been down this avenue before, but I will try one last
> time.
>
> It seems quite likely that the bot you have a problem with has the
> same user agent string, or a very small variation on the same
> string. If so then you can block it just with Apache.
>
> So, can you show us a few lines of logs from your
> /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log of the accesses from the
> offending bot(s)?
>

That is, increase your log verbosity (1) and and give us part of the
relevent lines.

Also if fail2ban is not working turn it off and other stuff that you
have put inplace to block those attacks, so we have something clean to
work with, apache is your first line of defence here.

1)  https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#loglevel

--
John Doe

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swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-03 14:00 +0100
  Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-03 14:10 +0100
    Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-03 15:10 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-03 15:20 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-03 20:00 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> - 2020-12-03 22:00 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 22:30 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-03 16:40 +0100
  Re: swamp rat bots Q Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 03:20 +0100
    Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 06:10 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 07:10 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-04 07:40 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 08:00 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 07:50 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-04 08:20 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 08:50 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-12-04 11:50 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 14:50 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 12:00 +0100
  Re: swamp rat bots Q "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 10:00 +0100
    Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 14:50 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-12-04 18:40 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-12-04 19:10 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-12-04 19:20 +0100
            Re: swamp rat bots Q Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-12-04 19:30 +0100
            Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 21:00 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 21:00 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-04 22:20 +0100
            Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 23:10 +0100
              Re: swamp rat bots Q Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-05 01:00 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 11:00 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-12-05 01:50 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-12-05 02:00 +0100
    Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-12-04 15:10 +0100
      Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-04 22:10 +0100
          Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-12-06 20:20 +0100
            Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-12-06 21:30 +0100
            Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-06 23:10 +0100
              Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-07 02:30 +0100
                Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2020-12-07 04:00 +0100

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