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Bad Bot Trap

http://www.kloth.net/internet/bottrap.php

vim robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bot-trap/

mkdir /var/www/web1/web/bot-trap

vim /var/www/web1/web/templates/ja_purity/index.php

Add this in the header. Blank.png should be just a single pixel transparent image and is unimportant. The link is important.

<a href="/bot-trap/"><img src="images/blank.png" border="0" alt=" " width="1" height="1"></a>

Now we create a file so as not to pollute the error logs:

vim /var/www/web1/web/bot-trap/index.html

<html>
  <head><title> </title></head>
  <body>
    <p>This is a spambot trap.  You shouldn't normally ever see this...</p>
    <p><a href="http://www.sonoracomm.com/">Home Page</a></p>
  </body>
</html>

Add another regex to the fail2ban filter:

failregex = ^<HOST> -.*"(GET|POST).*HTTP.*"(?:%(badbots)s|%(badbotscustom)s)"$
            ^<HOST> -.*"GET /bot-trap/

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