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by justusthane 1301 days ago
No, that’s not what this is referring to, since that doesn’t involve blocking IPs. This page[1] provides some detail:

> A recent change goes a step further and sends a UDP packet to my OpenBSD firewall containing the IP to be banned, and a small Ruby server running there adds the IP to a pf table, immediately blocking all further IP access from the bot.

[1]: https://jcs.org/2022/07/15/kludge

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Thank you,