Subj : CAPTCHA mod or something like that
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jan 15 2022 17:23:07

  Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Sat Jan 15 2022 04:22 pm

 >   Re: CAPTCHA mod or something like that
 >   By: Digital Man to acn on Sat Jan 15 2022 01:21 pm
 >
 >
 >  > ... but it sort of begs the question: why? A bot is disconnected pretty
 >  > quickly with the default configuration, I think it's 30 seconds of no
 >  > ANSI or other inactivity?
 >
 > well i've seen bots have multiple instances and use up all the nodes.
 > blocking them when they fail a challenge works pretty well.

Setting MaxConcurrentConnections = 1 or 2 works pretty well too.

*I* wouldn't want to block an IP address from future connections just because the user was having issues with their terminal and couldn't send the right response to a challenge.
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