[Koha] Securing opac-search

[Magnus Enger]

Kia ora!

Den 18.03.2025 13:59, skrev Fairlamb, Christina:
> Hello,
> 
> Koha 24.11.01
> 
> Not strictly a Koha problem but something I know a lot of Koha users face.
> After years of running happily with fail2ban and robots.txt blocking
> bots/crawlers, the security seems to have passed. We've been getting more
> and more bots of late switching IPs before bans can take place, perhaps
> they could be ddos, either way grinding koha to a halt. I've had to switch
> OPACPublic to disable for now. I can't find much about securing a server
> against these types of hits. Does anyone else running a small server have
> any guidance on what could be done/the next steps? I'd ideally like to keep
> the OPAC public.

Not much help, but I know this will be a topic for discussion in 
Marseille, in a couple of weeks. Maybe some good advice can come from that.

Best regards,
Magnus