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Fail2ban configuration stalls blocking AI crawlers, requiring restart

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The author experienced a failure in their fail2ban configuration, specifically with a custom jail designed to block AI crawlers that disregard robots.txt. Despite the regular expression appearing to function correctly, the system stopped banning new IPs. A restart of the fail2ban service resolved the issue, with a significant number of IPs being banned shortly after. AI

IMPACT Minimal impact for AI operators; focuses on a specific server administration issue.

RANK_REASON The article discusses a personal technical issue with a security tool and AI crawlers, lacking broader industry significance.

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Fail2ban configuration stalls blocking AI crawlers, requiring restart

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    fail2ban stall In January I added a new jail to my fail2ban configuration: apache-aibots . It's a simple regular expression match of two AI crawlers that do not

    fail2ban stall In January I added a new jail to my fail2ban configuration: apache-aibots . It's a simple regular expression match of two AI crawlers that do not respect robots.txt . Because of course they don't . This evening I noticed that there was a bunch of hits to my demo ca…

    LINKS github.com/…/fail2ban

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