Over a decade ago, I set up a tarpit [1] (I worked at a small web hosting company) on an unused machine to catch network scans. I had the idea of using the inf

Over a decade ago, I set up a tarpit [1] (I worked at a small web hosting company) on an unused machine to catch network scans. I had the idea of using the information gleaned from that to block IP addresses at the router level, but never did get around to it. [1] http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/07.1 http://boston.conman.org/2006/01/07.1