On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote: > > If this inconvenience's an innocent web user, I have neither ability to > detect the inconvenience nor to determine the user's innocence. I > understand your hotel analogue. In England many hotel guests use their > mobile phones or tablets - not on wifi but on direct radio (mobile > telephone) links; each link having a distinctive IP address. > > If the web hacker is operating through a data centre, then I permanently > block, for port 80, the whole of the data centre's known IP block. > > 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com