[SAC] fail2ban based trac spam filter

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Fri May 6 23:42:04 PDT 2016


On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 04:25:21PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> > FYI, on trac.osgeo.org I've added a trac-specific fail2ban
> > jail configuration to ban hosts which attempt to create
> > spam-looking wiki pages.
> 
> Cool, seems to do something:

Unfortunately, Jurgen found out it also bans people trying to DELETE
the spam (as deleting wiki pages is also done via POST /wiki/spam-looking-name)

So I guess I'll have to disable those rules as soon as we have
something better in place.

Will start a new thread with some new attempts I've made.

--strk; 


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