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Version 2.0.0 has multiple enhancements to enable blocking of abusive IP addresses from the Apache Web service (or for that matter, any service):

• Null-routing (--ipdrop) or packet filtering (--iptables) can be used to completely block all network activity from a specific IP address. Therefore, no need to update .htaccess file for Apache, as soon as bad IP address is detected, it can be blocked for all services running on that computer.
• If you want to stick with .htaccess modifications, you can use the new configuration file option HOST_BLOCKLINE to provide the format of the line to use to block IP access for that service.
• Finally, there is the --config configfilename option available to make blockhosts.py use different setups.