On 2025-11-27 12:05:28, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> Welcome to the AI future.
> anthropic.com have been having bad press since last year and don't appear to care how much upset they cause.

Just as an example, got 404s on
/pub/mirrors/fedora-buffet/epel/10.1z/Everything/aarch64/Packages/r/rust-mio0.8-devel-0.8.11-2.el10_1.noarch.rpm
4727 times in the last 24 hours! Hmmm, AIs have become Rusty? Muahahaha!

Then it pokes around in similar paths for the same Everything, not always
in /pub/mirrors. Then looks for other things multiple times in my non
existant Fedora mirror.

This has become Artificial Insanity now. "The definition of insanity is
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results." It doesn't matter how many thousands of times per day
ClaudeBot asks me, I'm not gonna suddenly sprout a Fedora mirror.

What would an LLM even do with an RPM package? "Much ado about nothing."

> Using Agent Headers or robots.txt is pointless as the aggressor cannot be trusted to be honest. I am currently looking for some form of proactive\reactive dynamic firewall blocking for this type of 'attack'.
> I am also investigating if I can tarpit (without causing myself significant overhead) to actually slow down probes onto my network by causing heightened resource usage at the aggressor's end.
>
> If you know of anything that may help please give me a head-up.

One of my ideas is to delay the 404 report. Normal people probably wont
even notice if the 404 report took a few seconds. It may slow down the
bots, but maybe not.

It's an on going arms race. I hope this bubble bursts soon.