Re: Correctly dealing with bots and scrapers.

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.