Archive for November 1st, 2004

More spammer techniques…

WEll,

Movable Type is quickly becoming insecure, and being compromised by spam generating comment posting ‘bots.

In my attempts to block these, I have two black lists. One list is a list of referers that are banned, the other is a list of IP addresses that are banned.

The problem now is that they use the pages on the site itself to generate valid referers. So It’s hard to use the referer as a way to ban anymore.
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New things

Tonight, I updated the router to sveasoft 5.4a. I have to tell you that you are not using this software, you are missing out. It’s very slick. It has enough features to make even the most experienced router jockey grin with envy.

Anyway, I upgraded tonight. Everything went smooth, and now I can backup and restore my configs. Plus there are VLAN’s.

G’Night.