Hey Folks
I have to apologize for the errors that seem to happen every twelve hours or so, like clockwork. We’re under a rather large spam-account attack, with automated bots attempting to sign up multiple hundreds of accounts per hour. They flood the system and things start to get stupid. As soon as I identify an IP or IP group, and ban it, they switch to another. Its incredibly frustrating to fight, as there really is no winning.
Bob, could you write a scrip file to identify an IP on application contact and if a bogus attempt automatically add that IP to an IPDENY file? Eventually they will run out of IP addresses to use.
That’s my plan. It looks like the bots are attempting to sign up, but my email block lists are rejecting them based on various filters, so they try again. I need to capture that reject, and the IP associated with it, and auto-add it to my hosts.deny file (right now Im doing it manually a couple times a day).
That really stinks. I hope you find a good way to automate it. You shouldn’t have to spend so much time just keeping the ship alfoat.
If you can get it running in the background, at least it will free up your time for other interests. Scrips and cron jobs are the cat’s meow in Linux, not sure how they are done in Windows. (No, I am not a Linux guru, just know enough to be dangerous.)
John, we need to find a way to torpedo the attackers…
I believe I have this issue resolved, with an agressive piece of software in front of the site.