Subj : Re: Block IPs based on Lo
To   : PAULIE420
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sat Mar 01 2025 11:36:00

> I invite callers from all countries - any reason to block them??? Are they bot
> or actual users??

Bots.  For me, the biggest offenders are China Mobile, Chinanet (the
biggest!), Digital Ocean, Alibaba (China, Singapore, Malaysia),
HINET-Taiwan, CNC Group China, Korea Telecom, China Unicom, and Panchenko -
Russia.  All of those have multiple ranges blocked in my ip-silent.can
file, and just about all of them are in there for bot activity -- using a
whole lot of known IOT username and password combos to try to create more
bots.


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