I have a server with Ubuntu 14.04, laravel 5.2 framework.
On the last 24 hours somebody continously send flood requests from different ip adresses as shown below (log/apache2/access.log):
198.46.157.112 - - [18/Oct/2016:17:44:04 +0100] "GET /choi-ads/test_44022 HTTP/1.1" 403 6032 "http://ki****" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.59 Safari/537.36"
175.232.51.53 - - [18/Oct/2016:17:44:04 +0100] "GET /choi-ads/test_44022 HTTP/1.1" 500 47902 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.2 Safari/537.36"
212.4.138.94 - - [18/Oct/2016:17:44:05 +0100] "GET /choi-ads/test_44022 HTTP/1.1" 403 6086 "http://buynew******" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36"
139.0.51.221 - - [18/Oct/2016:17:44:05 +0100] "GET /choi-ads/test_44022 HTTP/1.1" 403 6086 "http://buynew*****" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) coc_coc_browser/55.2.126 Chrome/49.2.2623.126 Safari/537.36"
I created a filter on fail2ban service to ban those ip addresses, but the requests contiue from different ip's. Until now i have 1800 ip's banned.
Do you have any idea how can i efficiently block these requests?