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That is just what a bot does by default. It will almost always give up after a few retries. The point of 429 is that you will not be using up your limited band
by OutOfHere 2y ago
That is just what a bot does by default. It will almost always give up after a few retries.
The point of 429 is that you will not be using up your limited bandwidth sending the actual response, which will save you at least 99% of your bandwidth quota. It is not to find IPs to block, especially if the requestor gives up after a few requests.
The IPs that you actually need to block are the ones that are actually DoSing you without stopping even after a few retries, and even then only temporarily.
- Sesse__ 2y ago> That is just what a bot does by default. It will almost always give up after a few retries. I've had them go on for hours. (This is not mainly bots, but various crap desktop applications.) > The IPs that you actually need to block are the ones that are actually DoSing you without stopping even after a few retries, and even then only temporarily. Yup. They only get blocked until next reboot :-)