Re: Correctly dealing with bots and scrapers.

Andrew Kirch via NANOG <[email protected]>
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Get a small version of a very old very fast very inaccurate LLM.  Have it
generate a couple terabytes of endless nonsense.

Redirect scrapers to it, and poison whatever LLM they are trying to train.

Andrew

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM Andrew Latham via NANOG <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I just had an issue with a web-server where I had to block a /18 of a
> large scraper. I have some topics I could use some input on.
>
> 1. What tools or setups have people found most successful for dealing
> with bots/scrapers that do not respect robots.txt for example?
>
> 2. What tools for response rate limiting deal with bots/scrapers that
> cycle over a large variety of IPs with the exact same user agent?
>
> 3.  Has anyone written or found a tool to concentrate IP addresses
> into networks for IPTABLES or NFT? (60% of IPs for network X in list
> so add network X and remove individual IP entries.)
>
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