I hope they learn their lesson from their own poll.

I still want to know what they library was doing.

Haunting

If crowdsec works for you thats great but also its a corporate product

It’s also fully FLOSS with dozens of contributors (not to speak of the community-driven blocklists). If they make money with it, great.

not exactly a pure self hosted solution.

Why? I host it, I run it. It’s even in Debian Stable repos, but I choose their own more up-to-date ones.

Allow me to expand on the problem I was having. It wasnt just that I was getting a knock or two, its that I was getting 40 knocks every few seconds scraping every page and searching for a bunch that didnt exist that would allow exploit points in unsecured production vps systems.

• Again, a properly set up WAF will deal with this pronto
• You should not have exploit points in unsecured production systems, full stop.

On a computational level the constant network activity of bytes from webpage, zip files and images downloaded from scrapers pollutes traffic. Anubis stops this by trapping them in a landing page that transmits very little information from the server side.

• And instead you leave the computations to your clients. Which becomes a problem on slow hardware.
• Again, with a properly set up WAF there’s no “traffic pollution” or “downloading of zip files”.

Anubis uses a weighted priority which grades how legit a browser client is.

And apart from the user agent and a few other responses, all of which are easily spoofed, this means “do some javascript stuff on the local client” (there’s a link to an article here somewhere that explains this well) which will eat resources on the client’s machine, which becomes a real pita on e.g. smartphones.

Also, I use one of those less-than-legit, weird and non-regular browsers, and I am being punished by tools like this.

All the self hosters in my internet circle started adopting anubis so I wanted to try it. Anubis was relatively plug and play with prebuilt packages

edit: I feel like this part of OP’s argument needs to be pointed out, it explains so much:

All the self hosters in my internet circle started adopting anubis so I wanted to try it. Anubis was relatively plug and play with prebuilt packages

At the time of commenting, this post is 8h old. I read all the top comments, many of them critical of Anubis.

I run a small website and don’t have problems with bots. Of course I know what a DDOS is - maybe that’s the only use case where something like Anubis would help, instead of the strictly server-side solution I deploy?

I use CrowdSec (it seems to work with caddy btw). It took a little setting up, but it does the job.
(I think it’s quite similar to fail2ban in what it does, plus community-updated blocklists)

Am I missing something here? Why wouldn’t that be enough? Why do I need to heckle my visitors?

Despite all that I still had a problem with bots knocking on my ports spamming my logs.

By the time Anubis gets to work, the knocking already happened so I don’t really understand this argument.

If the system is set up to reject a certain type of requests, these are microsecond transactions of no (DDOS exception) harm.

What a stupid headline. Negative clickbait (it makes me want to click elsewhere).

Did not know this one. There are risks however!

“Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”

The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That’s the main weakness imo.

Or in other words: it really depends what the user fills it with. It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I’m thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.

Thank you for your service.

I use keepassxc and although I’m unlikely to ever install it any other way than through my distro’s package manager without 3rd party repos, this is good to know and hits a personal note.

Fuck all nefarious hackes and scammers. I just re-installed my server and installed crowdsec on it not 24h hours ago, and already got 20 000 bans. Twenty thousand! It’s getting worse and worse and worse and worse.