[CentOS] slammed

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Always Learning wrote:

> All my web sites are configured as virtual hosts. The 'empty' 
> default web site (one on every server) redirects all requests to 
> 127.0.0.1. Sometimes I change this a Chinese consumer site.  Why 
> give the hackers and pests an opportunity to annoy you - send them 
> away before their requests can be done to your web site.

I've always assumed (without any data whatsoever on which to base that 
assumption) that scanbots won't follow redirects to different 
addresses. Do you have any information to the contrary?

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