IP range flagging [LWN.net]

IP range flagging

Posted Feb 18, 2026 18:15 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: IP range flagging by taladar
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

It's actually an interesting task! Find blocks of IPs that obey robots.txt and moderate the request rate, then whitelist them.

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IP range flagging

Posted Feb 19, 2026 14:34 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

And you've now created a market for blessed IP blocks :) .

IP range flagging

Posted Feb 19, 2026 18:21 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

And why not? It's all good as long as they _stay_ well-behaved.