All code in this blog post is fully open source at github.com/FoxMoss/fox-xdp. Bots have always been a problem on the internet. Be it DDOSing, AI scrapers, etc. It’s a treadmill problem and no solution will ever be perfect, but we can block many minimum effort attempts. I recently went down a coding rabbit hole. Packet filtering and analysis is a fascinating field. There’s just a bone in my body that likes writing software at a scale that’s bigger than it’ll ever be used. So how do you handle ne...