Answer by Guntram Blohm for Thousands of incoming HEAD requests - best way to...
Depending on the OS you're running on your ec2 instance, you could install fail2ban and write a small script for it that checks your access_log for HEAD requests, blocking any IP that issues too many...
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The simplest way to block a small number of IP addresses on AWS is NACLS (network access control lists). If it's from many IPs you'd be better off with WAF or an external service such as CloudFlare.
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I had unusually high https traffic recently from a couple of IP address with agents masquerading as Windows clients. I blocked the range via 'deny' inside of .htaccess (Apache 2.4)I'm still getting...
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