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I'm getting a lot of hackers spamming my domain with requests for files that just don't exist. This is eating up a lot of my allotted bandwidth and I'd like to blacklist these IP addresses.

Is there is a way to automatically blacklist IP addresses in Apache once they have requested X number of files that 404 in a specified time frame?

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Fail2ban does exactly what you ask.

It monitors your log files looking for certain patterns and then executes whatever action you specify. You can block an IP for a length of time.

It does require some skill in regex, but it comes packaged with regex testers.

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