Re: Linux 7.2

John Ames <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A place where nothing fits quite right
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:56:45 +0100
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Just ascertain their IP source addresses and pop in a firewall  
> 
> There are an an awful lot of source addresses involved, typically
> millions of them, due to the use of ‘residential proxy networks’.

IP whitelisting/blacklisting can *help* with crowd control (we use it
at $EMPLOYER just to cut down on all the wardialers operating from the
Pottsylvanian hinterlands,) but yeah, it's nothing like comprehensive.
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