[arch-general] HTTP spam from China

[Bjoern Franke]

On 26.02.19 13:40, Juha Kankare via arch-general wrote:
> I'm getting a lot of connections from China it seems. Whenever I check 
> my journalctl, it's an andless wall of nginx complaints about a single 
> ip spamming requests fro different php files. This happens with hundreds 
> of ip's, and tens of times daily. Has anyone else been hit by this. I 
> already made a shellscript to block all connections from China, but I'm 
> curious as to why this happens, and if anyone else has had the same 
> problem.
> 

Did you take a look at fail2ban?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fail2ban

Kind Regards
Bjoern