> 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 vari

> 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 :-)