On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Always Learning centos@u62.u22.net wrote:
The alternative is to be a willing victim.
It's more a question of why you run the service at all. If blocking people from reaching it doesn't bother you, why not just shut it down?
Blocking people ? Data Centre bots that download all or parts of my web sites for someone's personal amusement or for commercial gain of their customers or simply to find email addresses to use for spamming, are not the 'people' I want to attract.
You said you were blocking IPs. The IPs you see don't represent people or even specific devices and you have no way of knowing the correspondence.
Why should I tolerate some malicious nutter trying to hack into my web servers ? Better to block their IP after the first attempt.
Why tolerate anyone?