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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

    Just a quick update from this morning...  With the new rate-limiting
    in place the bots have almost completely gone away.  Instead of the
    300+ connections/second I was seeing this morning, the server is now
    down to less than TEN (and all of those also look like the same bot,
    plus the occasional hit from the opennic home page).  The overall
    traffic has slowed so much that I'm not even seeing any denials. 
    Whoever this person is, they are obviously paying close attention to
    the results, so mission accomplished.

On 10/05/2017 06:52 AM, Jeff Taylor wrote:

      Possibly, but no single IP is making requests quite that fast. 
      What they're doing is flooding me with requests from all over the
      place, and "they" seem to be a whole lot more active after I go to
      bed.  Yesterday I was seeing about 200 IPs per hour and around 50
      queries per second.  As I wake up this morning I find over 750 IPs
      per hour and over 300 queries per second.  And I'm pretty sure
      opennic didn't just happen to pick up that many new users
      overnight.