As anyone knows who has ever administered a server that is exposed to the web the Internet is a hostile place. Our servers are continually bombarded with a never ending stream of attempts to guess user ids and passwords. The source is from countless botnets and is constantly changing. I’ve tried a number of approaches to counter these attacks and I think I have come up with a solution that seems to be working.
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