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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Those are some very good and helpful insights, thank you very much for sharing. I was also hosting forgejo and used traefik as reverse proxy. However, my forgejo was locked down, which is probably why I had no bot attack.

Some thoughts:

  • fail2ban works for malicious requests very good, meaning things that get logged somewhere.
  • CrowdSec has an AI Bot Blocklist, which they offer for free if you host a FOSS project.
  • I am developing a tool which blocks CIDR ranges based on country directly via ufw. Maybe blocking countries helps in such a case, but not everyone wants to block whole countries.