- Bound the in-process verdict cache (FIFO eviction at 2000 entries) so a
flood of distinct bucket-tripping IPs cannot grow it without limit.
- Record block metadata (reputation, score, behaviors, category, TTL) in
antiddos:block:meta:{ip}, surfaced as the reason in the admin block list;
unban now also clears the metadata and report locks.
- Track daily CTI enrichment usage in Redis (crowdsec:usage:{date}); warn
once at 80% and pause lookups until tomorrow at CROWDSEC_CTI_DAILY_QUOTA
(default 10000, 0 = unlimited) so a via-spread DDoS cannot burn the plan.
- Add opt-in signal push to the CrowdSec community (CAPI watcher): stable
auto-generated 48-char machine_id/password pair persisted in Redis (or via
env), one-time registration, cached JWT login, optional Console enrollment,
and POST /v3/signals with a ban decision, deduped per IP. Never throws and
reports last status to the admin panel with a verify action.
- Admin page: quota usage bar, reporting status/verify channel, and CrowdSec
block reasons in the active-blocks list.
- new crowdsec-api lib: CTI lookup (GET /smoke/{ip}, freemium x-api-key), verdict parser with false-positive veto, 1h Redis + in-memory verdict cache, NX lock dedupe, 403/429 backoff; writes only the shared antiddos:block:{ip} key (value "crowdsec") and never touches Cloudflare
- gate fires it fire-and-forget for IPs that already tripped a rate bucket, so known-bad IPs are hard-blocked before the local maxViolations threshold
- runtime config: crowdsecAutoBlock toggle, score threshold (0-5, default 4), block TTL (default 24h); boot defaults CROWDSEC_AUTO_BLOCK_ENABLED / CROWDSEC_BLOCK_SCORE / CROWDSEC_BLOCK_TTL_SECONDS
- admin panel: CrowdSec stat card, verify-connection action, score/TTL settings, CrowdSec source badge in the blocked-IPs list
- credentials live in env only (CROWDSEC_API_KEY); block is enforced per-request via proxy on the resolved X-Forwarded-For / CF-Connecting-IP
- tests: crowdsec-api unit suite + ddos-guard integration suite (early-block, threshold, cache dedupe, backoff)
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