block a bot
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Hi @TedB,
The better way is to add some files to your server. Setting a security policy to block bot access might be a huge work.
Zyxel Melen0
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Is that a Flex 50? A USG 50 is a first gen router that was end of life years ago.
Can you give more details? Is the bot attack on the wan interface?
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Understood, small budget on this end for our nonprofit. USG-50 not flex. I followed a couple examples of blocking websites but that has not blocked the bot activity. We get pounded by amazonbot. I have a server firewall, software, that stops access once inside the external appliance. I want to stop it at the wan level.
I set up an Object Rule similar to GEO and a sister Security Policy so just need to tweak it.Thanks for response.
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Hi @TedB,
The better way is to add some files to your server. Setting a security policy to block bot access might be a huge work.
Zyxel Melen0 -
@basketball stars You're right that adding files to the server, like a robots.txt or implementing CAPTCHA challenges, can be effective for managing bots, especially those respecting web conventions. However, for malicious or persistent bots that ignore these measures, setting up a security policy on the USG-50 is more robust.
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Thiers no way to stop this really when a bot goes to example.com and loads the index page it then can look at the other links and loads them.
But if you didn't have a index page then when it goes to example.com it can't load anything only if you know the page like example.com/homepage.html will it load
also disable directory listing on server
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