Comments on: Don’t Think it’s a Problem? http://joemullins.com/archive/2005/01/19/dont-think-its-a-problem.php For Your Edification and Amusement Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Tobias Hoellrich http://joemullins.com/archive/2005/01/19/dont-think-its-a-problem.php/comment-page-1#comment-114 Tobias Hoellrich Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://joemullins.com/wp/?p=227#comment-114 <p>I feel you pain - same here. Between comment-spam and referer-spam I must have had a few thousand attempts over the last 24 hours. Funny enough the spamvertised sites all resolve to one IP-address - yes, the 219.150.118.16 one. Be it the newly snatched cheat<em>elite.com domain, fidelity</em>funding.net, ps<em>2</em>cool.com or any of the other crap (stars inserted to avoid the 'Your comment was denied for questionable content'). I'm so close to posting detailed instructions on how to take this host offline with a few people runnning 'ab -c 100' on systems they have access to.</p> <p>Sigh ...</p> I feel you pain – same here. Between comment-spam and referer-spam I must have had a few thousand attempts over the last 24 hours. Funny enough the spamvertised sites all resolve to one IP-address – yes, the 219.150.118.16 one. Be it the newly snatched cheatelite.com domain, fidelityfunding.net, ps2cool.com or any of the other crap (stars inserted to avoid the ‘Your comment was denied for questionable content’). I’m so close to posting detailed instructions on how to take this host offline with a few people runnning ‘ab -c 100′ on systems they have access to.

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]]> By: Joe http://joemullins.com/archive/2005/01/19/dont-think-its-a-problem.php/comment-page-1#comment-115 Joe Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://joemullins.com/wp/?p=227#comment-115 <p>Tobias</p> <p>Thanks for the comment. It hasn't stopped now for 4 days, so we're working on an automated solution for dumping the traffic at the firewall. I'm not sure why his server was targeted for so large scale an attack. It's just pointless. I'm wondering now if he's just one small part of a much larger attack that is being carried out by these thousands of zombie machines. If that was the case though I thought I would see more about it out there on the intarweb. I'll be sure to post what we find out here and any solutions we come up with. Your plugins are great for the comment spam, now we just need something to kill these errant referer spamming bastards.</p> Tobias

Thanks for the comment. It hasn’t stopped now for 4 days, so we’re working on an automated solution for dumping the traffic at the firewall. I’m not sure why his server was targeted for so large scale an attack. It’s just pointless. I’m wondering now if he’s just one small part of a much larger attack that is being carried out by these thousands of zombie machines. If that was the case though I thought I would see more about it out there on the intarweb. I’ll be sure to post what we find out here and any solutions we come up with. Your plugins are great for the comment spam, now we just need something to kill these errant referer spamming bastards.

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