Add user-agent my-tiny-bot
to block list
#536
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The
my-tiny-bot
is a bot, which requests every second partially very specific URLs:On one of my servers this bot caused ~26k requests within 24 hours from three different IP addresses:
Those IP addresses could be potentially also added to the block list, but those are from AWS, so I personally would avoid this and only block the user agent.
Other admins also report these associated IP addresses as evil: