28 Nov 2025 11:51:40 g4sra via Dng <dng@???>:

>> 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.
>
> I am aware of the tcp window size setting used during http\https but do not know enough about it to determine detrimental side effects. Was thinking a window size of one with a one second ACK delay. Obviously the connection socket would be 'stuck' open and there is a danger the host could run out of free sockets, other than that I dont have a clue.

OpenBSDs spamd oftwn uses a -w of 1 and stutters one character at a time but that's smtp.

https://man.openbsd.org/man8/spamd.8