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If these were actual legitimate bots using a known user-agent and coming from the same subnet so you could throttle their requests it would be fine.

But I’m seeing requests coming in from random IP addresses from all over the world using randomised user-agents. But somehow these are trying URLs in sequential order. A while ago this would be classed as a DDoS cyber attack.





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