Drop connections with Nginx

You can ignore requests sent to nginx by responding with the status 444

server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  listen 443;
  listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

  server_name dillonhafer.com;
  location /no-response {
    return 444;
  }
}

The primary use for this is to prevent processing requests with undefined server names:

# block for requests with undefined server names
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;

  return 444;
}

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