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Improve documentation and note the reserved ID range.
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Flameeyes's Ruleset for ModSecurity
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[Flameeyes's Ruleset for ModSecurity](http://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/modsec)
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[![Flattr this!](http://api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png)](http://flattr.com/thing/128608/Flameeyess-Ruleset-for-ModSecurity)

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blog](http://blog.flameeyes.eu/) and employs a number of techniques,
including DNSBL and User-Agent validation.

* [Webpage](http://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/modsec)
* [GitHub Project](https://github.com/Flameeyes/modsec-flameeyes)
* [Flattr](https://flattr.com/thing/128608/Flameeyess-Ruleset-for-ModSecurity)

Prerequisites
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form of caching resolver or a nscd (Name Service Cache Daemon)
instance, to avoid repeating the same requests for long times.

Development and contribution
----------------------------

The rules are developed via a [GitHub
repository](https://github.com/Flameeyes/modsec-flameeyes) which also
hosts the issue tracker. If you want to make fixes or improvements to
the rules, you're invited to fork the project and send a pull request
there.

Starting from ModSecurity 2.7 rule IDs are mandatory. To avoid
colliding with other rulesets, this ruleset is assigned, as of
2012-03-07, the range 430,000-439,999.

Asked Questions
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* My website/browser is not a spammer, where do I complain?

The ruleset is, for the most part, hand-compiled, so mistakes may
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