[wp-hackers] Referrer Spam [s]

[Roy Schestowitz]

_____/ On Tue 11 Oct 2005 18:14:33 BST, [Amit Gupta] wrote : \_____

> Roy Schestowitz <r at schestowitz.com> wrote:
> |  ...let alone have any access to a console for their /own/ account/s
> |  (unless they
> |  use cron jobs as a workaround).
>
> some hosts provide SSH access on their shared hosting plans & some
> provide it
> for reseller accounts.

Not my host *frown*. Consider yourself to be fortunate if you are allowed
SSH/Telnet access. The best I can ever do when wishing to invoke commands is
use
tricks < 
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/09/12/cpanel-terminal-hack/
> .


> but I don't think that would cut it though, since
> it requires
> fiddeling with the server's firewall rules & that won't be allowed &
> even if you manage
> to do it, its a likely bet that you'll be kicked out by your host pretty
> soon after
> your feat!! ;)


I could possibly ask them to do that as they are quite kind. It all depends on
how many tickets they have open at the time.


> |  Dougal, I read about SpamValve and I appreciate your suggestion. As
> it's the
> |  first time spam of that scale hit me (peaking at over 200 MB of
> dynamic
> |  content
> |  per day), I decided to just re-direct to a forbidden (code 403) page.
> This has
> |  worked for over a day.
>
> Bad Behavior does something similar, but instead of redirecting to a 403
> page,
> its simply uses the die() I think!!

Judging by the logs tonight, my main domain wind up serving 8000 requests for
403.shtml yesterday. Had the redirection not been in place, gigabytes of
on-the-fly traffic would have gone wasted. All the referrers are Tonga 
domains,
but none is a Tonga IP address. Make you wonder, eh? Those bloody 
spammers have
slowed down crawling by search engines, I suspect, not to mention destroyed
logs and made statstics virtually meaningless. Is there anything the spammers
would not ruin? Even the manual intervention makes it all a PITA and this
continues to get worse by the day.

Roy

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