Nginx Plugin :: Autoblock

[ccesario]

Hi folks,

Could someone explain how the autoblock process (from nginx package) works? It seems that we having some problem with it I tried disable it by cron (console) and this is not persistent, after reboot the autoblock crontab entry it is created again.

My system in some hours add 4233 entries.

Regards

Carlos

[fabian]

The bot protection can be disabled in the advanced options of the HTTP server. It blocks common bot UAs from accessing the page. This way, your web servers will not face so many vulnerability scans, etc. and if they come back later, the source IP is already blocked if you configure a firewall rule with the managed alias. In this view, you can see the alias content and with the unlock button you can remove a false positive. Time is a unix timestamp btw.