Thread: Handling attacks?
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Old 07-26-2017, 05:06 AM   #3
davidfor
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What @abatie said is a common practice for defence against a lot of different attacks. The password should prevent access, but it does nothing for a DDoS attack or an attack attempting to crack the password. Blacklisting an IP that an attack appears to be coming from, will reduce the severity of the attack and might stop it completely.

I don't think that calibre should do anything about DDoS attacks. If someone is worried about that, then an appropriate firewall or using a proxy with the defence against these. But, blacklisting an IP after a few password errors might be something that can be done.
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