On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:02:49 +1000, onefang wrote in message
<20251128040249.i2tgr6gjwwm2nfal@???>:

> 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.

..enjoy an helpful read of: apt-cache -f search tarpit |less


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