When you need to search some technical explanation about bitcoin, you could also use the search engine dedicated to bitcoin related questions:
https://bitcoinsearch.xyz

Sometimes helps, but not always.

Thanks. That's clearer. So that long string of numbers may be the ban time? I see that can be put in there like so (which is why I wanted to clarify.)

# [network]
bantime=8048343948

Was reading some of your helpful words today, so have a few sats :-]


https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/rpc/setban.html

I think there is also a command to use a txt list of IPs but can't remember now. I use it once in 2017 to ban the bcasher nodes.

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Can setban be used in config file?

https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/rpc/setban.html
I think there is also a command to use a txt list of IPs but can't remember now. I use it once in 2017 to ban the bcasher nodes.

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