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Block? Nope, robots.txt does not block the bots. It's just a text file that says: "Hey robot X, please do not crawl my website. Thanks :>"
I disallow a page in my robots.txt and ip-ban everyone who goes there. Thats pretty effective.
Can this be done without fail2ban?
probably. never used it tho
How did you do it? Looking to do this on my own site.
My websites Backend is written in flask so it was pretty easy to add