How to not respond on some requests?

[efkz]

Hot to make server do not send any response to some specific requests? Like there's no server at all.
I mean not sending NoContent but absolute silence.

[nikita-shtimenko]

@efkz
Why would you want to not respond at all?
Any particular reason?

[efkz]

@efkz Why would you want to not respond at all? Any particular reason?

My bosses saw the logs with many sus requests from bots and wish to block them for security reasons.

[aldas]

Probably this https://stackoverflow.com/a/72368956 will help. But the client will know that server is listening as the TCP connection is established etc.

[efkz]

Thanks. But i think to implement automated iptables drop rule creation