Banning IPs from Apache?

[Matthew Valites]

>Yes, you can adaptively respond to where this traffic starts coming in
>from, and the suggestion you make ought to work very well for that kind of
>thing.
>  
>
Are the ips that the traffic is coming from reverse-resolvable?  Are 
they spoofed ips, or do they actually lead somewhere?  Use this 
directive <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#hostnamelookups> 
if they're not resolvable.  I realize this does nothing for your problem 
if they're valid ips, but it's a start.

~Matt