Re: Favorite way to ban an IP from your webserver?

["Matt Shields-5" <user=70@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 11, 2007 12:00 AM, Ruben Safir <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:14:57PM -0500, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: 
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:24:09PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote: 
> > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:24:29PM -0500, Jon Hermansen wrote: 
> > > > # rm -rf / 
> > > 
> > > That may not be funny. 
> > 
> > Oh, it's definitely funny. 
> 
> Even if I found the destruction that someone can cause with this command could be 
> offset by some degree of humor, it is still not funny.  It is old hat and very 
> worn out. 
> 
> > This is the you-must-be-smarter-than-this- 
> > chair-to-use-a-UNIX-machine test. 
> > 
> 
> 
> That's generally a bad test, and not a sound philosophy.  If you want an OS used only 
> be a few highly trained (not necessarily educated) monkeys, then this is the write philosophy. 
> 
> If you want an OS that the general public can embrace and people can grow with, then you need 
> to rethink this. 
> 
> > It also contains a few valuable life lessons: 
> > 
> > - don't do stuff just because some random stranger tells you to. 
> 
> Trust is the foundation of not only Free Software, but human existence. 
> A large some of the difference between human intelligence and chimps is 
> the high degree of trust and cooperation we are capable of.  Nothing 
> can happen without trust. 
> 
> > - backup your data.  (and test the backups!) 
> 
> Teach him how to use tar or dump then. 
> 
> > 
> > :-) 
> 
> Ruben 
> > 
> > -b 
> > 
> > -- 
> > do i contradict myself? 
> > very well then, i contradict myself, 
> > (i am large, i contain multitudes.)                      <walt whitman> 
> 
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> 
> "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.< 
> You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt.  I guess you missed that one." 
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