[kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent

[B.S.]

I came across https://www.cloudflare.com/ the other day, and noticed, I think, comments about blacklisting / known spammers, and so on. Would it bring anything to your party?


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> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 9:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent
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>I have not seen Bittorrent traffic.
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>But what I am seeing recently on many sites is that comment spammers coming in over HTTP via Tor exit nodes, trying to register users and/or post SEO comments.
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>Makes it very hard to do anything about them. Depending on the site we either just let it be, as long as it is not too much of a resource drain, or block the IP address, and then they pop in back after a few days on a new one.
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>An arms race causing a whack-a-mole scenario ...