Blocked A6-Index and Entire AWS Netblock

What is on Your Mind?
1

Weary of seeing our load average go up to 50+, I just did a major block on these networks (stats over a less than 20 min interval):

1204×259 43.6 KB

2

54.203.110.179 is Amazon. Bot activity?

BTW the new look is really nice.

3

So many people, orgs, etc run bots, especially distributed bots, on AWS.

If it was up to me, I would block all AWS since none of the AWS traffic are "real users", to my knowledge.

4

Man, this A6 Bot is malicious. It's killing the site. Mostly running from so many AWS netblocks that i"m starting to block huge AWS blocks (some overlapping as I have not had time to clean this up):

iptables -A INPUT -s 35.164.186.253/24 -j DROP #         A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 35.166.71.145/24 -j DROP #  A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 35.167.251.12/24 -j DROP #  A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 35.160.220.18/24 -j DROP #  A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 54.200.0.0/14 -j DROP #     A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 54.244.201.240/24 -j DROP #         A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.32.63.7/24 -j DROP #     A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.38.180.198/24 -j DROP #  A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 35.167.3.59/24 -j DROP #    A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 35.163.255.97/24 -j DROP #  A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.38.183.234/24 -j DROP #  A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.13.16.215/24 -j DROP #   A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.13.26.158/24 -j DROP #   A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.39.35.76/24 -j DROP #    A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.32.0.0/11 -j DROP #      A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 52.0.0.0/11 -j DROP #       A6 Indexor
iptables -A INPUT -s 54.240.0.0/12 -j DROP #     A6 Indexor