Subj : Re: Bot attacks
To   : AKAcastor
From : Cozmo
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 09:06 pm

 AK> I saw Phenom Productions mentioned, I haven't used their mods but
 AK> there's some neat stuff there for sure.  ThreatSentry is always eye
 AK> catching, with the geo-location on the world map.  BotCheck seems to be
 AK> in use on loads of boards. https://www.phenomprod.com/Mods


I've seen this mod on a few boards. I'll check it out.

 AK> On my own board, I implemented some simple bot detection into a 'telnet
 AK> ringdown' server I use.  It watches for automated login attempts, based
 AK> on a list of keywords, and temporarily bans IPs.  It's worked pretty
 AK> well at greatly reducing the number of bots that reach the login
 AK> sequence of the BBS, while being invisible to callers.
 AK> https://github.com/akacastor/ringdown

Luantics is runnning on a Windows box so can't try out your system
unfortunately.

These bot have gone crazy lately.

Thanks!

|02-=|10Cozmo|02=-

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