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[yardstick]

> Worst case, this will give bad actors the option to lock the original owner out of their own server if they have a botnet host in the same network.

According to to the article, you can exempt IPs from being blocked. So it won’t impact those coming from known IPs (statics, jump hosts, etc).

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most places barely even have the essential monthly email with essential services' ip in case of dns outage.

nobody cares about ips.