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January 16, 2006

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I feel guilty for even posting after that last post (we're all thinking about you Mikey).

Is anyone else getting new, enormous piles of trackback spam? Pixy, is one of the pets asleep at the wheel?

And worse, when I try and blacklist them, I get

An error occurred:
mkdir /home/pixymisa: Permission denied at lib/MT/FileMgr/Local.pm line 104

jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2957.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2959.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2963.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2965.

MT-Blacklist Version 1.6.5
Script execution time: 21 seconds

Thanks for the help!

Posted by: Ogre at 12:38 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Nope. Nothing over here.

Posted by: Jim @ at January 16, 2006 01:16 PM

2 Weird. I got about 20 overnight and have seen 5 or 6 in the past 3 hours or so.

Posted by: Ogre @ at January 16, 2006 01:57 PM

3 I received three TB spams overnight. Not the volume you are receiving, but never the less, spam.

SR

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at January 16, 2006 03:59 PM

4 I'll check it out. My trackback filter had blacklisted most of the universe, which meant no spam, but no trackbacks either. I fixed that yesterday, but...

Is most of the spam coming from Blogspot by any chance?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 16, 2006 10:28 PM

5 It's from all over...oh wait, no it's not:

IP Address: 85.255.114.131
IP Address: 85.255.114.134
IP Address: 85.255.114.130
IP Address: 85.255.113.157
IP Address: 85.255.114.133

I guess I was mostly troubled by the error I got when I tried to blacklist them myself.

Posted by: Ogre @ at January 16, 2006 10:49 PM

6 I think I worked out that error - it's a holdover from the configuration I set up on the old server.

It should be fixed now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 17, 2006 05:20 AM

7 Ummm...it's worse now. Much worse.

40 trackback spams in the last 5 hours -- but at least I can BlackList 'em now, thanks Pixy!

IP Address: 195.39.170.102
IP Address: 85.255.114.132
IP Address: 85.255.114.132
IP Address: 85.255.114.133
IP Address: 195.39.170.102
IP Address: 195.39.170.102
IP Address: 85.255.113.156
IP Address: 195.39.170.102

Posted by: Ogre @ at January 17, 2006 10:42 AM

8 I take back that "nope". I'm getting a steady trickle of the bastards too.

Posted by: Jim @ at January 17, 2006 12:53 PM

9 I blacklisted about 50 this morning, so maybe it will slow down.

Posted by: Ogre @ at January 17, 2006 12:56 PM

10 I'll see of I can work out what's going on. We have blocked 32,000 trackback spams in the last 36 hours, so it's definitely working, but more spam is getting through than usual. We're blocking 99%, but before we were blocking 99.8%. (That is, before it went wonky and started blocking 99.99%...)

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 18, 2006 02:09 AM

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