Post #622511
2026-03-10 10:10 UTC
My tiny allround VPS at Hetzner has a sort-of fail2ban, mainly to prevent the logs from filling up with garbage that won't work anyway. The ban-list usually had around 120 entries of repeat offenders. Starting this year the list had grown to a constant 200+ entries, and this morning it's at 380. I don't have any statistics, but my guess would be the machine sees more abuse attempts than actual traffic. Do you notice a similar trend?
Replies (4)
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@mcrmonkey@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 14:18
@twm Same I've taken to blocking entire countries using various block lists The ban table is still quite large though even with that applied
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@pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-10 22:23
@twm I work for a digital web agency and yes, I've seen abuse/bot scraping traffic increase exponentially over the past 2 years.
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@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-11 02:46
@twm Yes, depsite I have a tiny home server and only 3 people are using it — the count of bots, trying to pass over the password protected pages, are only increasing. Even with fail2ban setting to remove blocked IPs from database after 100 days. #faill2ban #bots
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@caffetino@social.pikaia.org 2026-03-10 11:44
@twm I'm also seeing this. Certainly an increase.