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		malfist on April 30, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I use zip bombs to protect my server Why wouldn't something like fail2ban not work here? That's what it's built for and has been around for eons.

ozim on April 30, 2025 | [–]

Fun part was that fail2ban had RCE vulnerability. So you were more secure not running it now it should be fixed but can you be sure?

lillecarl on April 30, 2025 | [–]

You don't always firewall 80/443 in Linux :(

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